Dissident Republican Paramilitaries

David Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, pursuant to the answer of 19 April 2006,  Official Report, column 724W, on dissident republican paramilitaries, whether the publication of the eighth report of the independent monitoring commission provided him with information on dissident republican paramilitary recruitment of which he had not previously been in possession.

Paul Goggins: In his answer 27 February, 16 March 2006 and 19 April 2006, my right hon. Friend the Member for St. Helens, South (Mr. Woodward) advised that the recently published IMC report indicated that there is evidence that dissident republican groups are attempting to recruit members. Mr. Woodward based his information on the eighth IMC report which was published on 1 February 2006.

Staff Surveys

David Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many staff surveys have been conducted in  (a) each department in Northern Ireland and  (b) his Department in each of the last three years.

David Hanson: The following table details the number of staff surveys undertaken by each of the 11 NICS core departments and the Northern Ireland Office during the last three years. The information has been provided on a financial year basis.
	The information covers surveys undertaken at an NICS-wide, departmental, directorate, divisional and branch level unless where indicated otherwise.
	
		
			  Department  2003-04  2004-05  2005-06 
			 DARD 8 9 9 
			 DCAL 2 0 1 
			 DE 3 5 4 
			 DEL(1) 1 2 5 
			 DETI 1 5 8 
			 DFP(1) 1 1 5 
			 DHSSPS 4 4 3 
			 DOE 0 0 0 
			 DRD 1 2 5 
			 DSD 0 2 4 
			 NIO 2 6 5 
			 OFMDFM 3 18 14 
			 Total 26 54 63 
			 (1 )Branch level survey information could be provided only at disproportionate costs

Information Technology

Christopher Huhne: To ask the hon. Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission how much was spent on information technology (IT) sourced from outside the House in each of the last five years; who is responsible for such projects in the House service; and what IT  (a) expertise and  (b) qualifications they possess.

Nick Harvey: The cash expenditure from the administration estimate on externally-sourced IT equipment purchase and maintenance, and corporate system development during the last four years has been:
	
		
			  £000 
			   2002-03  2003-04  2004-05  2005-06 
			 IT equipment 2,657 2,554 639 1,150 
			 IT maintenance 1,995 1,955 2,022 3,542 
			 Software 467 431 683 65 
			 System development 2,216 3,421 4,989 3,632 
			 Total 7,335 8,360 8,333 8,389 
		
	
	Figures for 2001-02 are not readily available following the replacement of the financial accounting systems in October 2003.
	The Commission is not responsible for expenditure on Members' IT equipment. However, I understand that the cash costs of this have been:
	
		
			   Members' IT equipment (£000) 
			 2002-03 1,230 
			 2003-04 792 
			 2004-05 725 
			 2005-06 2,094 
		
	
	Prior to 2006 responsibility for information technology projects rested with the particular Department concerned. Cross-departmental projects, or projects which involved both Houses, were managed by projects boards established by the Board of Management. The project boards used external expertise to advise on and support the projects, and the procurement of this expertise was subject to a tender process for each project. Overall supervision was provided by a board, including Members with extensive experience in IT project management.
	Since January 2006, a single service (PICT) has been established to manage IT projects and service contracts for both Houses. Project activity will be supervised by the management boards of both Houses through a joint board.
	Parliamentary ICT staff are given appropriate training and a number have relevant qualifications, though details of these are not held centrally. PICT is currently in the process of adopting an approach to staff competence, training and development pioneered by the British Computer Society.

Vote Office Print Unit

David Amess: To ask the hon. Member for North Devon, representing the House of Commons Commission what the retail price per issue was of  (a) the daily,  (b) the weekly and  (c) the bound edition of the  Official Report in each year since 1988; and how many copies were sold.

Nick Harvey: Pricing and sales of House of Lords publications are not a matter for the Commission. Pricing and sales of House of Commons publications became a matter for the Commission only in November 1996, when the Stationery Office was privatised. Complete records of copies sold are available only back to 1999. The price and sales information available for the publications requested is as follows:
	
		
			  Official Report: Daily Part 
			  Financial Year  Price (£)  Copies sold 
			 1999-2000 5.00 96,829 
			 2000-01 5.00 99,231 
			 2001-02 5.00 75,585 
			 2002-03 5.00 73,558 
			 2003-04 5.00 62,139 
			 2004-05 5.00 47,951 
			 2005-06 5.00 33,954 
		
	
	
		
			  Official Report: Weekly 
			  Financial Year  Price (£)  Copies sold 
			 1999-2000 12.00 9,036 
			 2000-01 12.00 9,076 
			 2001-02 12.00 8,330 
			 2002-03 12.00 7,965 
			 2003-04 12.00 6,288 
			 2004-05 12.00 4,815 
			 2005-06 12.00 4,299 
		
	
	
		
			  Official Report: Bound Volume 
			  Financial Year  Price (£)  Copies sold 
			 1999-2000 70.00 4,961 
			 2000-01 70.00 4,289 
			 2001-02 70.00 3,276 
			 2002-03 70.00 4,130 
			 2003-04 70.00 3,659 
			 2004-05 (1)105.00 2,876 
			 2005-06 (1)105.00 1,082 
			 (1) Bound Volume format changed from two to three-weekly content and the price was adjusted accordingly.

Information Technology

Christopher Huhne: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what the  (a) originally estimated,  (b) most recently estimated and  (c) outturn cost was in each of the five largest information technology contracts agreed with outside suppliers over the last five years.

Gareth Thomas: I refer the hon. Member to the reply given to the hon. Member for Chipping Barnet Mrs. Villiers) on 20 January 2006,  Official Report, column 1642W, for the figures for the three largest IT projects over the last five years.
	DFID has also let a number of small IT related contracts. However, our central records do not distinguish IT contracts, so provision of details for these contracts would incur disproportionate costs.

Overseas Development Agency

David Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what the expenditure of the Overseas Development Agency was in  (a) 2004 and  (b) 2005, broken down by (i) staffing, (ii) accommodation and departmental offices, (iii) travel expenses, (iv) development project funding and (v) other expenditure.

Hilary Benn: DFID's expenditure for 2004-05 and 2005-06 was as follows:
	
		
			  £000 
			  Expenditure  2004-05  2005-06 
			 Staffing 93,700 101,096 
			 Accommodation and departmental offices 27,851 28,842 
			 Travel expenses 13,337 12,646 
			 Bilateral funding (1)2,145,000 (1)2,321,000 
			 Other expenditure (1)3,265,000 (less the above) (1)3,750,000 (less the above) 
			 (1) Rounded to the nearest million. Notes:1. Staff costs include wages and salaries, social security costs and other pension costs for permanently employed staff, Ministers, special advisers and "other", which include costs for seconded officers and those on fixed term contracts. The figures for 2005-06 are provisional, as final outturn figures are not yet available.2. Accommodation and departmental office costs include rent, rates utilities and maintenance costs.3. The figures for travel reflect all domestic and overseas travel for Ministers, advisers and officials, which include the costs of accommodation and subsistence.4. Bilateral funding includes all forms of direct assistance. The 2005-06 figures are provisional, as final outturn figures are not yet available.5. Other spend represents both administration costs and programme costs, not covered by the previous headings, examples of which would be staff training—on the administration expenditure and multilateral contributions on programme expenditure.

Motoring Revenues

Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what estimates he has made of the total revenue from  (a) motoring taxes,  (b) road tolls and  (c) fees paid to the Government by motorists in each of the past 10 years.

Stephen Ladyman: On  (a), motoring taxes are a matter for the Chancellor.
	On  (b), the Government only receive income from one undertaking—the Dartford-Thurrock River Crossing. Income from tolls at other statutory tolled undertakings is retained by the operator. For information about the revenue from the Dartford-Thurrock River Crossing, I refer to the answers given to the hon. Members for Leicester East (Keith Vaz) on 14 February 2006,  Official Report, column 1884W and Gravesham (Mr. Holloway) on 20 April 2006,  Official Report, columns 752-53W.
	On  (c), figures for fee income are set out in the following table.
	
		
			  £ million 
			  Service  1996-97  1997-98  1998-99  1999-2000  2000-01  2001-02  2002-03  2003-04  2004-05  2005-06( 1) 
			 Practical car driving test 46.7 37.9 40.4 43.7 46.5 49.7 54.6 59.0 70.6 85.0 
			 Practical lorry and bus driving test 5.6 3.7 4.6 4.4 4.7 5.5 6.3 6.8 7.9 9.4 
			 Practical motorcycle driving test 5.4 3.1 3.7 4.6 5.1 4.2 4.4 4.5 4.1 4.6 
			 Motorcycle compulsory basic training 0.5 0.9 1.0 1.2 1.4 1.4 1.4 1.5 1.4 1.5 
			 Driving theory test 16.9 18.8 18.8 18.6 17.2 19.5 24.2 29.8 31.2 31.7 
			 Van roadworthiness test 0.8 0.8 0.9 0.8 0.7 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.5 
			 Single vehicle approval — — — — 2.3 5.0 4.7 6.0 5.5 4.2 
			 Vehicle identity check — — — — — — — 0.8 1.4 3.1 
			 MOT Pad fee (this excludes the element of the MOT fee retained by garages) 7.1 10.0 12.4 13.5 16.9 24.1 28.8 33.1 36.0 35.4 
			 Driving licence provision 28.3 29.1 33.1 40.4 47.1 59.7 67.6 70.2 70.2 72.9 
			 Vehicle registration — — 67.7 68.6 70.5 77.9 79.0 92.6 131.3 125.0 
			 (1 )Provisional. Notes:1. From 1990-2000 the driving licence fee includes duplicate licence fees.2. From 2003-04 the vehicle licence fee includes the fee for duplicate registration documents.3. Motorcycle compulsory basic training figures for 1996-97 are estimates because fee income was not recorded separately for that year.

BBC World Service

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many hours a week was broadcast by the BBC World Service to  (a) Bhutan and  (b) Nepal in (i) television and (ii) radio format in the last year for which figures are available.

Ian McCartney: There is no dedicated service to Bhutan. But SW transmissions of the Bengali, Nepalese and English services are audible there. The dedicated Nepalese service is delivered on SW and FM. FM transmissions were adversely affected by recent political events. These should return to normal soon. SW transmissions in English and Hindi can also be heard in Nepal. Details are:
	Bhutan?English (115.5 hours per week), Bengali (10.5 hours per week), Nepalese (3.5 hours per week)
	Nepal?English (129.5 hours per week), Nepalese (3.5 hours per week), Hindi (17.5 hours per week)
	From March to end September 2005, the Nepalese Service also broadcast an additional 15 minutes daily but this was discontinued in October. The World Service does not broadcast via television.

European Court of Human Rights

Andrew Pelling: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what representations she is making to the European Court of Human Rights for the removal of the language barriers highlighted in the recent Woolf Report on the working practices of that institution.

Geoff Hoon: The noble and learned Lord Woolf's report was a UK initiative, funded and supported by the Government. UK officials regularly raise the importance of implementing the recommendations in Lord Woolf's report, including those on language barriers, with the European Court of Human Rights and the Council of Europe.
	My right hon. Friend the former Foreign Secretary (Mr. Straw) did not make representations on the report. My noble Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs, Baroness Ashton of Upholland, represented the UK at the Council of Europe Ministerial on 19 May. She raised Lord Woolf s Report during her intervention, stressing that the UK supported its recommendations.

Consumer Advice

Edward Davey: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what plans he has to introduce a consumer advice handbook.

Ian McCartney: DTI currently has no plans to develop or introduce a consumer advice handbook. However the introduction of Consumer Direct?a national telephone and online consumer advice service?has considerably raised the profile of consumer advice. By the end of June 2006, with the launch of the last three contact centres, Consumer Direct will be a fully national service providing a single national phone number that makes it easier than ever for consumers to get the advice and information they need.
	The service is very popular and currently receives around 25,000 calls per week across England, Scotland and Wales. A recent customer satisfaction survey reported that 87 per cent. of callers were satisfied and eight out of 10 callers feel that they now have the confidence to deal with similar problems should they occur in future.
	We are also funding a £45 million, two-year programme to provide face-to-face debut advice. About £16 million will go to citizens advice projects,£7 million to other voluntary sector advice agencies and the remaining £22 million to partnership projects involving both Citizens Advice and other advice agencies. The funds will pay for 500 new advisers who will help tens of thousands of families to tackle debt.

Insolvency Act

Michael Spicer: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many appeals against insolvency declarations under the Insolvency Act 1996 there were in each of the last 10 years.

Jim Fitzpatrick: holding answer 22 May 2006
	The table shows the number of bankruptcy orders made against individuals that have been annulled in the last 10 years on the ground that the order ought not to have been made, and the number of winding-up orders made against companies that have been rescinded over the same period:
	
		
			  Number 
			   Annulment order  Rescission order 
			 1996 21 127 
			 1997 91 94 
			 1998 141 73 
			 1999 236 69 
			 2000 415 178 
			 2001 438 220 
			 2002 339 130 
			 2003 419 171 
			 2004 399 122 
			 2005 376 140

Insolvency Service

Vincent Cable: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many people have been employed in the Office of the Official Receiver in the Insolvency Service in each year since 1989; and if he will make a statement.

Jim Fitzpatrick: The total number of staff employed (full-time equivalent) in Official Receives' offices at the end of each year since 2003 is as follows:
	
		
			  Year ending March  Number 
			 2003 1,058.14 
			 2004 1,126.99 
			 2005 1,180.65 
			 2006 1,377.04 
			  Notes:1. These figures include permanent and casual staff, but do not include short-term appointees or agency staff.2. The numbers of staff employed by The Insolvency Service in earlier years are published in the Agency's Annual Report and Accounts.

Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive

Mark Prisk: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what assessment his Department has made of the available infrastructure capacity in the UK to handle waste in accordance with the waste electrical and electronic equipment directive.

Malcolm Wicks: Successful implementation of the waste electrical and electronic equipment directive will require appropriate infrastructure capacity to be in place at various points along the waste management chain. Delivery of this infrastructure is necessarily driven by market forces. The role of government is to ensure that this market can operate properly by providing certainty about the regulatory environment. The Government are committed to implementing the WEEE directive as quickly as possible in consultation with stakeholders. The Department will issue a consultation paper and timetable for implementation before the summer recess.

Correspondence

Simon Burns: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport when she will reply to the letter from the hon. Member for West Chelmsford of 23 January about Mr. D. Willets (ref 34665 and 39899); for what reasons there has been a delay in replying; and if she will make a statement.

Richard Caborn: I apologise for the delay in responding to the correspondence from the hon. Member. I hope to provide you with a response shortly.

Information Technology

Christopher Huhne: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much was spent on information technology (IT) sourced from outside his Department in each of the last five years; who is responsible for such projects in his Department; and what IT  (a) expertise and  (b) qualifications they possess.

John Healey: The information is as follows.
	
		
			  Annual spend on IT 
			   £000 
			 2002-03 5,300 
			 2003-04 2,823 
			 2004-05 4,281 
			 2005-06 3,087 
		
	
	Information on 2001-02 is not readily available and providing it would incur disproportionate costs.
	Projects are the responsibility of the appointed project/programme managers. Depending on the scale of the project, project managers are expected to have increasingly formal training and background in project management. The current head of technical infrastructure came with a background in MOD procurement and has Prince2 and British Computer Society project management qualifications.

Grant Moneys

Harry Cohen: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what arrangements are in place for monitoring proper use of grant money allocated by her Department; and if she will make a statement.

Phil Woolas: Grants, other than those paid to local authorities, are covered by a legal agreement called a grant funding agreement. In that my Department carefully defines the expenditure which is eligible for grant funding and that which is not, and we include conditions covering value for money and financial propriety.
	Where these grants are over £20,000 a year then, by 30 September after the end of each year, the grant recipient must complete and submit to the Department a Statement of Grant Usage giving details of eligible expenditure during the funding period. This must be accompanied by a report from a reporting accountant, who must be a member of a supervisory body recognised by the Companies Acts, and be independent of the grant recipient using the definition given in section 27 of the Companies Act 1989.
	Arrangements for European grants and grants to local authorities are similar, except that for local authorities, instead of a reporting accountant, the Audit Commission appoints an external auditor to carry out the work. Some grants provided to local authorities from Government Departments are on a non ring-fenced basis?that is with no conditions attached. However, local authorities are subject to a comprehensive statutory framework which governs the uses to which their income can be put, and the control and accountability of their financial transactions. Since 2002 local authorities have also been subject to a comprehensive performance framework which provides a rounded picture of local councils' performance. The framework provides the basis for establishing a more effective and efficient relationship between central and local government, based on performance and on risk.

Home Information Packs

Michael Gove: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister how many home inspectors have completed their training to provide home condition reports; and how many inspectors he estimates will need to have qualified to ensure an effective introduction of the home information pack scheme.

Yvette Cooper: I have been asked to reply.
	4,400 Home Inspectors are in the process of being trained, and as of 30 April 2006 have completed their training. The amount of training required depends on previous experience but the average surveyor can be trained in around five days plus the time taken to assemble a portfolio of work. Over the next 12 months we expect thousands of Home Inspectors to complete their training in time for the implementation date of 1 June 2007.
	We estimate that the number of Home Inspectors required will be between 5,000 and 7,400. This estimate has been developed in consultation with the industry, and it will be kept under review.

Benefit Claims

John McFall: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many days were taken to process a benefit claim in West Dumbartonshire constituency in May  (a) 2006,  (b) 2004 and  (c) 2005.

Anne McGuire: The administration of Jobcentre Plus is a matter for the Chief Executive of Jobcentre Plus, Lesley Strathie. She will write to the hon. Member.
	 Letter from Lesley Strathie:
	The Secretary of State has asked me to reply to your question asking what the time to rate a claim for jobseeker's allowance, income support and incapacity benefit was in West Dunbartonshire in May 2006, May 2004 and May 2005. This is something that falls within the responsibilities delegated to me as Chief Executive of Jobcentre Plus.
	Our measure of the time taken to process a claim is the actual average clearance time. Since April, national Jobcentre Plus targets have been set for the clearance of claims to jobseeker's allowance, income support and incapacity benefit, replacing the former Key Management Indicators. The targets have been set at 12 working days for jobseeker's allowance claims, 11 working days for income support and 18 working days for incapacity benefit.
	The actual average clearance times for the West Dunbartonshire area expressed in working days are in the table. As the figure for May 2006 is not yet available details for April 2006 have been included.
	
		
			   Jobseekers allowance  Income support  Incapacity benefit 
			   Target (days)  Clearance time (days)  Target (days)  Clearance time (days)  Target (days)  Clearance time (days) 
			 May 2004 12 8.1 12 10.8 19 19.4 
			 May 2005 12 11.1 12 11.4 19 27.0 
			 April 2006 12 13.4 11 12.6 18 14.1 
		
	
	Although the average actual clearance time for incapacity benefit in May 2005 was 27 days, the overall figure for 2005-06 was 16.4 days.
	We are also concentrating additional resources on improving our current performance in clearing claims for income support and jobseeker's allowance.
	I hope this is helpful.

Claim Processing

Willie Rennie: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions 
	(1)  how many days it took on average to rate a claim for  (a) income support,  (b) jobseeker's allowance and  (c) incapacity benefit in Fife in the most recent period for which figures are available;
	(2)  what targets his Department has set for the number of days taken to rate claims for  (a) income support,  (b) jobseeker's allowance and  (c) incapacity benefit in Fife.

Anne McGuire: holding answer 12 May 2006
	The administration of Jobcentre Plus is a matter for the chief executive of Jobcentre Plus, Lesley Strathie. She will write to the hon. Member.
	 Letter from Lesley Strathie:
	The Secretary of State has asked me to reply to your question asking how many days it took on average to rate a claim for (a) income support, (b) jobseeker's allowance and (c) incapacity benefit in Fife in the most recent period for which figures are available and what targets his Department has set for the number of days taken to rate claims for (a) income support, (b) jobseeker's allowance and (c) incapacity benefit in Fife. This is something which falls within the responsibilities delegated to me as Chief Executive of Jobcentre Plus.
	Our measure of the time taken to process a claim is the Actual Average Clearance Time. For 2005/06, the Jobcentre Plus internal Key Management Indicator (or target) for processing claims for Income Support and Jobseeker's Allowance was 12 working days while the figure for Incapacity Benefit was 19 working days. From April 2006, the Key Management Indicator has been upgraded to a full headline Jobcentre Plus target and the figures changed to 11 days for Income Support and 18 working days for Incapacity Benefit. The level for Jobseeker's Allowance remains at 12 days.
	The Actual Average Clearance Times for the Fife area are in the table.
	
		
			  Days 
			   March 2006( 1)  Cumulative for the period from April 2005 to March 2006  Key Management Indicator( 2) 
			 Incapacity benefit 15.5 11.9 19 
			 Income support 13.3 9.7 12 
			 Jobseeker's allowance 14.5 13.4 12 
			 (1 )Most recent period available.  (2) Actual average clearance time. 
		
	
	I hope this is helpful.

Departmental Contact Centres

Natascha Engel: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what estimate he has made of the percentage of people telephoning contact centres run by his Department who got through on their first attempt between April 2005 and March 2006; and how long it took for them to be called back.

Anne McGuire: The administration of Jobcentre Plus is a matter for the Chief Executive of Jobcentre Plus, Lesley Strathie. She will write to the hon. Member.
	 Letter from Lesley Strathie:
	The Secretary of State has asked me to reply to your question about the percentage of people telephoning contact centres who got through on the first attempt between April 2005 and March 2006; and how long it took for them to be called back. This is something which falls within the responsibilities delegated to me as Chief Executive of Jobcentre Plus.
	The available information is in the following table.
	
		
			  Month  Percentage of calls answered( 1)  Number of days booking ahead for Call backs( 2)  (first contact service only) 
			  2005   
			 April 82.6 — 
			 May 85.9 — 
			 June 80.9 — 
			 July 75.1 — 
			 August 75.5 — 
			 September 77.5 — 
			 October 88.3 3.2 
			 November 93.7 1.7 
			 December 95.9 0.9 
			  2006   
			 January 96.2 1.1 
			 February 96.3 0.9 
			 March 95.9 0.9 
			 Year to date 86.6 — 
			  Notes:1. The percentage of calls answered represents calls made to the first contact service (customers wishing to make a new claim to benefit) and Jobseeker Direct Service (customers inquiring about Jobs).2. Data on number of days booking ahead has only been collected centrally from October 2005 
		
	
	We do not have information on the number of customer calls that are answered on their first or on subsequent attempts.
	I hope this is helpful.

Departmental Expenditure

Michael Weir: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how much was spent on advertising by  (a) his Department,  (b) each (i) non-departmental public body and (ii) Executive agency for which his Department is responsible and  (c) each independent statutory body, organisation and body financially sponsored by his Department in each year since May 1997.

David Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions pursuant to the answer of 20 July 2005,  Official Report, columns 1810-11W, on departmental advertising, whether the figures provided include all costs of publicity which the Department has incurred in each year.

Anne McGuire: The Department for Work and Pensions was formed on 8 June 2001 from parts of the former Department for Social Security, the former Department for Education and Employment, and the Employment Service. Information prior to 2001 is not held centrally and can be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
	
		
			  Departmental advertising costs 
			   £000 
			  2005-06( 1)  
			 State pension deferral 300 
			 Images of disability 2 
			 Targeting benefit fraud 4,553 
			 Pension credit 362 
			 Winter fuel payments 918 
			 State second pension 675 
			 Age Partnership group 19 
			 National sector campaign 23 
			   
			  2004-05( 1)  
			 Age Positive 29 
			 State pension deferral 115 
			 Disability Discrimination Act 1,992 
			 Targeting benefit fraud 6,017 
			 Direct payment 8,379 
			 Council tax benefit 674 
			 Pension credit 4,388 
			 Winter fuel payments 515 
			 Lone parent leaflet promotion marketing 216 
			 National vacancy campaign 390 
			 IB reforms pilots 106 
			   
			  2003-04( 1)  
			 Age Positive 70 
			 Second state pension 216 
			 Pension service awareness 906 
			 New Deal 5,678 
			 Disability Discrimination Act 40 
			 Targeting benefit fraud 8,383 
			 Direct payment 11,095 
			 Council tax benefit 556 
			 Pension credit 9,907 
			 Winter fuel payments 625 
			 Jobseekers direct 1,632 
			 IB reforms pilot 113 
			 Jobcentre Plus customer marketing 1,401 
			 National employer campaign 1,158 
			   
			  2002-03( 1)  
			 Age Positive 706 
			 Future pensioners/informed choice 2,878 
			 Second state pension 489 
			 New Deal for Musicians 33 
			 Disability Discrimination Act 50 
			 Targeting benefit fraud 35 
			 Direct payment 858 
			 Winter fuel payments 627 
			 Inherited SERPS 646 
			   
			  2001-02( 1)  
			 Minimum income guarantee 3,365 
			 Winter fuel 475 
			 Future Pensioners/Informed Choice 4,740 
			 Age Positive 6 
			 Fraud 8,039 
			 New Deal 25 Plus 613 
			 New Deal for Disabled People 350 
			 Disability Discrimination Act 2,882 
			 (1) The table does not include the following as the information is not held centrally and to obtain it would incur disproportionate cost: spend by non-departmental bodies for which the Department is responsible details of highly localised publicity activity by the Department's customer-facing businesses recruitment or procurement advertising Jobcentre Plus publicity during 2002-03 as at that time allocations sat with individual policy teams and within regional budgets. 
		
	
	The information in the table, and that in the answer of 20 July 2005,  Official Report, relate to media buying expenditure only which forms the bulk of departmental publicity expenditure, but excludes direct mail, public relations, production and other costs.
	These figures update the information provided on 20 July 2005 (PQ/05/9501) following the identification of a number of transcription errors in that reply.
	The following tables show the correct advertising media breakdown for 2004-05 and 2003-04.
	
		
			  2004-05 
			  Campaign/subject  TV  Radio  Press  Other 
			 Age Positive — — 29,000 — 
			 State pension deferral — — 115,440 — 
			 Disability Discrimination Act — 1,016,540 885,000 90,000 
			 Targeting benefit fraud 1,481,000 1,140,000 618,000 2,778,000 
			 Direct payment 2,668,000 930,000 4,046,000 735,000 
			 Council tax benefit — 12,810 660,970 — 
			 Pension credit 1,687,580 46,840 2,633,520 20,500 
			 Winter fuel payments — — 514,910 — 
			 IB reforms pilots — 35,290 70,630 — 
			 Lone parent leaflet promotion marketing — — 215,740 — 
			 National vacancy campaign — — 323,500 66,000 
			 Total 5,836,580 3,181,480 10,112,710 3,689,500 
		
	
	
		
			  2003-04 
			  Campaign  TV  Radio  Press  Other 
			 Age Positive — — 70,400 — 
			 Second state pension — — 215,590 — 
			 Pension service awareness — — 906,100 — 
			 New deal 3,526,190 818,030 1,043,320 290,410 
			 Disability Discrimination Act — 40,290 — — 
			 Targeting benefit fraud 1,835,000 1,145,000 1,423,000 3,980,000 
			 Direct payment 3,594,000 1,872,000 5,389,000 240,000 
			 Council tax benefit — — 556,230 — 
			 Pension credit 3,570,860 30,990 6,305,170 — 
			 Winter fuel payments — — 625,000 — 
			 Jobseekers direct 1,565,730 — 66,420 — 
			 IB reforms pilot — 45,090 67,510 — 
			 Jobcentre plus customer marketing — — 11,860 1,389,000 
			 National employer campaign — — 1,158,020 — 
			 Total 14,091,780 3,951,400 17,837,620 5,899,410 
			  Notes:  1. All figures in the departmental advertising costs table have been rounded to the nearest thousand, while the revised tables from 20 July 2005 have not in order to be consistent with the previous reply.  2. Press includes national press, regional press, specialist press, advertorials and featurelink.  3. Other includes outdoor, online and ambient media.  4. All figures are exclusive of VAT.

Departmental Relocation

Tim Boswell: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what progress has been made in the relocation of departmental posts from the South East to other regions.

Anne McGuire: The basis of the Department's relocation strategy resulting from the Lyons' review is to relocate posts rather than people. Information on the number of posts relocated from London and the South East to other regions is contained in the following table:
	
		
			  Posts relocated from London and the South East between 1 June 2003 to 31 December 2005 
			  Location  Number of posts 
			 Blackpool 453 
			 Cwmbran 286 
			 Liverpool 399 
			 Wrexham 510 
			 Newcastle 387 
			 Pembroke Dock 386 
			 Dundee 40 
			 Sheffield 68 
			 Makerfield 198 
			 Bradford 129 
			 Annesley, Grimsby, Liverpool, and Peterlee 26 
			 Plymouth, Bristol and Edinburgh 74 
			 Taunton 95 
			 Halifax 31 
			 Bridgend 69 
			 Derby 25 
			 Total relocated posts 3,176

Home Computer Initiative

Peter Luff: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what costs were associated with setting up the Home Computer Initiatives scheme for his Department, including consultancy and administrative costs.

Anne McGuire: The Department for Work and Pensions had intended to launch a Home Computing Initiative in the winter of 2006. The only costs incurred have been the internal staff costs on the early stages of the project, which we estimate to be around £47,000. There have been no consultancy costs.

Incapacity Benefit

David Hamilton: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many constituents in Midlothian are receiving  (a) long-term and  (b) short-term incapacity benefit.

Anne McGuire: The most recent available information is in the table.
	
		
			  Incapacity benefit and severe disablement allowance claimants  in the Midlothian parliamentary constituency,  by rate of benefit: November 2005 
			   Number 
			 All incapacity benefit and severe disablement allowance 4,290 
			 Incapacity benefit short-term (lower) rate 130 
			 Incapacity benefit short-term (higher) rate 190 
			 Incapacity benefit long-term rate 2,330 
			 Incapacity benefit credits-only 1,090 
			 Severe disablement allowance 550 
			  Notes:1. Figures have been rounded to the nearest 10.2. Totals may not sum due to rounding. Source: DWP Information Directorate: Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study.

Job Vacancies

John Cummings: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions 
	(1)  how many job vacancies were on the register on average at job centres in Easington constituency in each year between 2001 and 2005; and if he will make a statement;
	(2)  how many job vacancies there were on average on the register at job centres in Easington constituency in each year from 2000.

Anne McGuire: Information on Jobcentre plus vacancy data by parliamentary constituency is only available from April 2004 and is set out in the following table.
	
		
			  Easington parliamentary constituency 
			   Average number of 'live' unfilled vacancies on the register on any given day 
			 2004 1,430 
			 2005 1,350 
			  Source:  Jobcentre plus labour market system

Pathways to Work

Danny Alexander: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to his answer of 4 May 2006,  Official Report, column 1768W, on pathways to work, how many claimants the figures represent in each case.

Anne McGuire: The information requested is in the following table:
	
		
			  Numbers of pathways to work participants and of choices starts 
			   Registered with New Deal for Disabled People Job Broker  Referred to the Condition Management Programme  Awarded the Return to Work Credit 
			   All new claimants in pathways areas  Claimants who volunteer to participate in choices programme  All new claimants in Pathways areas  Claimants who volunteer to participate in choices programme  All new claimants in pathways areas  Claimants who volunteer to participate in choices programme 
			 Existing customers-volunteers 1,530 1,530 970 790 3,320 740 
			 New/repeat mandatory customers 7,630 8,010 6,410 5,950 8,260 2,500 
			 Existing customers-mandatory extension 850 850 1,500 1,500 350 N/A 
			 Notes:  1. Data are to October 2005.  2. All figures have been rounded to the nearest ten.   Source:  Pathways to work evaluation database

Pension Age

David Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what his estimate is of the number of state retirement pensioners aged over  (a) 80 and  (b) 90 years in (i) 1980, (ii) 1990, (iii) 2000, (iv) 2010, (v) 2020, (vi) 2030, (vii) 2040 and (viii) 2050; and if he will make a statement.

James Purnell: The information is provided in the following table:
	
		
			  Thousand 
			   Over 80  Over 90 
			 Nov 1980 1,540 150 
			 Sept 1990 2,120 250 
			 2000-01 2,470 400 
			 2010-11 3,030 480 
			 2020-21 3,800 710 
			 2030-31 5,320 1,060 
			 2040-41 6,300 1,640 
			 2050-205 7,730 2,000 
			  Notes:1. All figures include Non-contributory Retirement Pension.2. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10,000 and are for GB and overseas pensioners. Sources:1. 1980 and 1990 figures are derived from published DWP statistics.2. 2000-01 figures are derived from bi-annual 5 per cent. statistics for March 2000, September 2000 and March 2001 appropriate for the 2000-01 financial year.3. 2010-11 onwards figures are from the GAD model aligned to the latest data available.

Pension Credit

Brian Jenkins: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many residents in each electoral ward in Tamworth constituency receive pension credit.

James Purnell: The information is provided in the following table:
	
		
			  Pension credit beneficiaries by ward in Tamworth constituency, November 2005 
			  Ward name  Individual beneficiaries 
			 Bourne Vale 65 
			 Fazeley 340 
			 Little Aston 60 
			 Mease and Tame 150 
			 Shenstone 160 
			 Stonnall 55 
			 Arnington 340 
			 Belgrave 355 
			 Bolehall 540 
			 Castle 630 
			 Glascote 390 
			 Mercian 530 
			 Spital 465 
			 Stonydelph 305 
			 Trinity 305 
			 Wilnecote 315 
			 Tamworth Total 4,990 
			  Notes:1. Figures are rounded to the nearest five.2. Ward totals do not sum to parliamentary constituency total due to rounding.3. The number of individual beneficiaries includes both claimants and their partners. Source: Information Directorate Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study 100 per cent. data.

Pension Credit

Jim Devine: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many people in Livingston received pension credit in 2005.

James Purnell: The information is provided in the following table.
	
		
			  Pension credit individual beneficiaries in the parliamentary constituency of Livingston by quarter, February 2005  to November 2005 
			  Quarter  Beneficiaries 
			 February 2005 4,240 
			 May 2005 5,510 
			 August 2005 5,540 
			 November 2005 5,610 
			  Notes:  1. The numbers of individual beneficiaries are rounded to the nearest ten.  2. Parliamentary constituencies are assigned by matching postcodes against the relevant ONS postcode directory.  3. The February 2005 figures relate to the 1997 parliamentary constituency boundaries. The figures for May 2005 onwards relate to the 2005 parliamentary constituency boundaries.  4. The number of individual beneficiaries includes both claimants and their partners.  5. Individual beneficiaries figures may include partners who are aged under 60.   Source:  Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study.

Pension Credit

Richard Spring: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many pensioner households were receiving pension credit in West Suffolk constituency in each financial year since 2001-02.

James Purnell: The information requested is in the following table.
	
		
			  Pension credit recipients in the parliamentary constituency of West Suffolk since November 2003 
			  Quarter  Recipients 
			 November 2003 2,730 
			 November 2004 3,930 
			 November 2005 4,060 
			  Notes:  1. Caseloads are rounded to the nearest ten.  2. Parliamentary constituency is assigned by matching postcodes against the relevant postcode directory.  3. Pension Credit replaced Minimum Income Guarantee (MIG) on 6 October 2003.  4. Recipients are those people who claim Pension Credit either on behalf of themselves only or on behalf of a household. This number is equal to the number of households in receipt of Pension Credit.   Source:  Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study

Unsatisfactory Attendance Procedures

John McDonnell: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many  (a) oral warnings,  (b) written warnings,  (c) dismissal decisions and  (d) retirements on medical grounds decisions were made in (i) Jobcentre Plus and (ii) his Department under his Department's unsatisfactory attendance procedures in each month in 2005.

Anne McGuire: holding answer 27 February 2006
	The best information we have available at this time is contained in the following table. The data on oral and written warnings has been extracted from the Department's Staff Information System. This system went live at the end of October 2005; prior to this, the Department did not have a single, central system which recorded warnings given. As a result, the figures for January to September may not fully represent the actual level of warnings given.
	The data on dismissals on health grounds is taken from clerical records because the Department's computerised payroll records do not differentiate between dismissals for ill health and other types of dismissal. The data on medical retirements is taken from payroll records.
	
		
			  Department for Work and Pensions 
			   Oral warnings  Written warnings  Dismissals  Ill health retirements 
			 January 158 36 52 19 
			 February 185 34 78 15 
			 March 241 52 76 23 
			 April 208 47 55 20 
			 May 293 77 55 23 
			 June 285 76 55 21 
			 July 329 87 58 18 
			 August 365 94 42 14 
			 September 406 93 56 11 
			 October 496 121 55 9 
			 November 666 132 48 14 
			 December 402 89 30 3 
			  Note:  The table for DWP includes the figures for Jobcentre Plus. 
		
	
	
		
			  Jobcentre Plus 
			   Oral warnings  Written warnings  Dismissals  Ill health retirements 
			 January 96 27 31 12 
			 February 117 22 49 10 
			 March 168 29 53 14 
			 April 124 26 29 14 
			 May 183 40 39 16 
			 June 172 46 34 13 
			 July 197 59 33 13 
			 August 227 59 24 9 
			 September 279 55 34 7 
			 October 333 72 26 5 
			 November 403 83 30 10 
			 December 257 54 16 3

Absenteeism

Andrew George: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what the total number of days lost due to  (a) sickness absence and  (b) unauthorised absence in (i) his Department, (ii) its agencies and (iii) its non-departmental public bodies was in each year since 2000.

Barry Gardiner: DEFRA was created in June 2001, and the answer given relates to full calendar years since then.
	The total number of working days lost due to sickness absence in DEFRA and its Agencies is shown in the following table.
	
		
			  Department/Agency  2002  2003  2004 
			 DEFRA 89,800 60,500 56,100 
			 CEFAS 2,800 4,000 3,300 
			 CSL 4,200 4,700 4,400 
			 PSD 1,200 1,000 1,100 
			 RPA 11,900 38,900 30,600 
			 VLA 10,100 11,200 10,900 
			 VMD 800 1,000 600 
			  Note:All figures rounded to the nearest 100. 
		
	
	Statistics on the average number of working days lost per staff-year for all Government Department and Agencies each year since 1999 is published on the civil service website at: http://www.civilservice.gov.uk/management/conditions_of_service/publications/index.asp#sickness
	The Analysis of Sickness Absence in the Civil Service in 2005 is due to be published in August 2006.

Climate Change

Norman Baker: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what the  (a) percentage and  (b) actual change in carbon dioxide emissions was between 1990 and the most recent year for which figures are available based on (i) Kyoto Treaty criteria and (ii) Kyoto Treaty criteria together with emissions from international aviation and international shipping.

Ian Pearson: The figures requested are taken from the UK Greenhouse Gas inventory 2006 and are given in the following table. They show emissions between 1990 and 2004, the latest year for which full data are available.
	
		
			  Greenhouse gas emissions in Kyoto base year and 2004 
			  Source  Emissions in base year/MtCe( 1)  Emissions in 2004/MtCe( 1)  Absolute change/MtCe( 1)  Percentage change 
			 All emissions included under Kyoto 209.5 178.9 -30.1 -14.6 
			 Emissions of CO2 included in above 160.6 152.5 -8.1 -5.0 
			 Emissions of CO2 from international aviation 4.3 9.0 +4.7 +109 
			 Emissions of CO2 from international shipping 1.8 1.6 -0.2 -11 
			 (1) Million tonnes of Carbon equivalent

Emissions Trading

David Drew: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what the emissions target is for carbon dioxide emissions for each EU country under the EU emissions trading scheme for 2006; and what targets are planned for each of the next five years.

Ian Pearson: The following table, published on the European Commission website(1), shows the total allowances allocated by member states for phase I (2005-07) in their national allocation plans. Most countries have allocated these allowances evenly over the three years.
	
		
			  Member state  Phase I CO 2  allowances (million tonnes)  Percentage share of EU allowances 
			 Austria 99.0 1.5 
			 Belgium 188.8 2.9 
			 Czech Republic 292.8 4.4 
			 Cyprus 16.98 0.3 
			 Denmark 100.5 1.5 
			 Estonia 56.85 0.9 
			 Finland 136.5 2.1 
			 France 469.5 7.1 
			 Germany 1,497.0 22.8 
			 Greece 223.2 3.4 
			 Hungary 93.8 1.4 
			 Ireland 67.0 1.0 
			 Italy 697.5 10.6 
			 Latvia 13.7 0.2 
			 Lithuania 36.8 0.6 
			 Luxembourg 10.7 0.2 
			 Malta 8.83 0.1 
			 Netherlands 285.9 4.3 
			 Poland 717.3 10.9 
			 Portugal 114.5 1.7 
			 Slovak Republic 91.5 1.4 
			 Slovenia 26.3 0.4 
			 Spain 523.3 8.0 
			 Sweden 68.7 1.1 
			 United Kingdom 736.0 11.2 
			 Total 6,572 100.0 
			 (1 )http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO/05/84&format=HTML&aged=1&language=EN&guiLanguage=en 
		
	
	Member states are currently preparing plans for phase II (2008-12) in which they will determine their total allocations for the five year period. European Commission guidance states that the emissions caps must use the phase I allocation as a starting point and must make steps towards each member state's Kyoto protocol target under the burden sharing agreement. Member states must submit final installation level allocation plans to the Commission by 31 December 2006.

Environmental Liability Directive

Alan Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs which UK sites of special scientific interest do not fall within the scope of the environmental liability directive and would not be protected under UK implementing laws unless its scope were to be extended.

Barry Gardiner: Sites of special scientific interest (SSSIs) overlap with sites protected under EU legislation (council directive 79/409/EEC on the conservation of wild birds; council directive 92/43/EEC on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora). As a result, the 25 per cent. of SSSI areas in England that are not also EU-protected sites, would not be covered by legislation implementing the environmental liability directive unless the Government exercised the discretion provided in that directive. I shall write to the hon. Member with the detailed information.
	This is in respect of England only as policy on the environment and nature conservation is a devolved matter and therefore for the respective Administrations in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales.

Greenhouse Gases

Julie Kirkbride: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what change there has been in greenhouse gases since 1997; and what assessment he has made of the reasons for the change.

Ian Pearson: The following table shows UK emissions for the six greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide (CO2) methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), perfluorocarbons (PFCs) and sulphur hexafluoride (SF6), and total emissions in million tonnes of carbon equivalent, for each year since 1997. These figures are taken from this year's UK greenhouse gas inventory.
	
		
			   1997  1998  1999  2000  2001  2002  2003  2004 
			 CO2 149.6 150.0 147.5 149.0 153.1 148.6 151.8 152.5 
			 CH4 20.2 19.1 17.2 16.3 14.8 14.2 12.9 12.5 
			 N20 16.5 15.7 12.1 12.1 11 .5 11.0 10.9 11.1 
			 HFCs 5.2 4.7 3.0 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.4 
			 PFCs 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 
			 SF6 0.3 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.3 
			 Total 191.6 189.8 180.1 180.3 182.4 177.0 178.7 179.0 
			 Percentage change since 1997 0.0 -0.9 -6.0 -5.9 -4.8 -7.6 -6.7 -6.6 
		
	
	The Government's UK Climate Change Programme, published on 28 March 2006 outlined the reasons for the reduction. The decrease in greenhouse gas emissions since 1990 has mainly been driven by restructuring, especially in the energy supply industry, energy efficiency; pollution control measures in the industrial sector and other policies that reduced emissions of non-carbon dioxide greenhouse gases.

Greenhouse Gases

Julian Brazier: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if he will list the industries which are the 10 largest emitters of greenhouse gases; and how much and what proportion of total emissions of such gases they emitted in the last year for which figures are available.

Ian Pearson: The UK Greenhouse Gas Inventory provides a specific breakdown of greenhouse gas emissions from the following industrial sectors:
	Power Generation
	Petroleum Refining
	Manufacture of Solid Fuels and other energy industries
	Iron and Steel Production
	Non Ferrous Metal Production
	Offshore Oil and Gas Extraction
	Production of Cement, lime and fletton brick
	The contribution of these processes to UK greenhouse gas emissions, expressed in millions tonnes of carbon equivalent (MtCe), and percentage of total UK greenhouse gas emissions, is given in the following table. These data are taken from the UK Greenhouse Gas Inventory for 2004, which is the latest year for which data are available.
	
		
			  UK greenhouse gas emissions 2004 
			  Sector  GHG emissions in 2004/MtCe  Percentage of total UK GHG emissions in 2004 
			 Power Generation 46.93 26.2 
			 Petroleum Refining 5.03 2.8 
			 Manufacture of Solid Fuels and other energy industries 2.02 1.1 
			 Non Ferrous Metals 1.04 0.6 
			 Offshore Oil and Gas 6.05 3.4 
			 Non Ferrous Metals 1.04 0.6 
			 Cement, lime and fletton brick production 3.13 1.7 
		
	
	Emissions from the chemicals industry are estimated to be of the order of 3 million tonnes of carbon per year (approximately 1.8 per cent. of total UK greenhouse gas emissions). A more precise figure for this sector will be available when European Union Emissions Trading Scheme figures for 2005 can be formally reconciled with the 2005 inventory dataset, which will be published in 2007.
	Verified emissions of UK installations included in the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme are available, by sector, on the Defra website. The EU ETS covers installations responsible for approximately 50 per cent. of UK CO2 emissions.

Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control Regime

Eric Illsley: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 
	(1)  what assessment his Department has made of the capability of individual local authorities adequately to implement and enforce the integrated pollution prevention and control regime;
	(2)  what assessment his Department has made of standards of compliance with integrated pollution prevention and control SG2 for new glass-making facilities.

Ben Bradshaw: The local authority industrial pollution regimes are regularly reviewed, including local authority performance reviews. Such a review, involving just over 100 local authorities was undertaken in 2004 and a follow-up review has just been completed and the report will be published shortly.
	The Department has for the past year been working with local authority stakeholders to improve the training and competence framework for local authority personnel undertaking this work. Local authorities have regularly been made aware of the options of out-sourcing, joint working, or obtaining expert advice when carrying out these functions. I am told that Chester city council have employed consultants to assist them in determining this latest application from Quinn Glass.
	The Department encourages local authorities to share expertise and experience in regulating different sectors by establishing 'link' groups. There is such a link group for the glass manufacturing sector, the co-ordinator of which works for Barnsley metropolitan borough council. Officials in the Department keep in periodic touch with her and with the trade association, British Glass. Chester city council are a member of the group.
	The local authority unit of the Environment Agency, which advises the Department on technical issues relating to the local authority industrial pollution regimes, has met the link group and also visited to glass manufacturing installations. The unit has reported back to the Department following these activities.
	I cannot comment on the recent High Court judgment because I understand that it is subject to an appeal.

Radiative Forcing

Julian Brazier: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what proportionate contribution to the overall UK-attributable radiative forcing total is accounted for by  (a) residential properties,  (b) business premises,  (c) industrial processes,  (d) power generation,  (e) cars,  (f) buses and  (g) aviation; what the radiative forcing multiplier is for each category; and what the range of uncertainty is in estimates of the multiplier for each category.

Ian Pearson: Table 1 gives the contribution of each sector listed to total UK greenhouse gas emissions in 2004. The first column of numbers gives percentage contributions with emissions from power generation shown separately. The second column of numbers shows percentage contributions with emission from power generation reallocated to the sectors which use the power generated.
	The data are consistent with the UK Greenhouse Gas Inventory published in 2006, which contains data to 2004, the most recent year for which data are available for all gases by sector. The aviation estimate covers domestic flights only because international aviation is not included in the UK emissions total, in accordance with international guidelines.
	The estimates include emissions from carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, the hydrofluorocarbons, the perfluorocarbons and sulphur hexafluoride. Radiative forcing is accounted for by using Global Warming Potentials (GWPs) as weighting factors in adding together emissions estimates of the different gases.
	The GWPs are listed in table 2 and apply by gas and not by sector. The effect of emissions from aviation at altitude may be significantly greater than at ground level. This would increase the radiative forcing effect from aviation but there is no agreed value to account for this and it remains a matter of scientific investigation. The IPCC Third Assessment Report estimates uncertainty in the GWPs relative to carbon dioxide as +/-35 per cent.
	
		
			  Table 1: 2004 emissions of greenhouse gases included in the Kyoto protocol, by sector 
			  Percentage 
			  Sector  Proportion of total UK greenhouse gases emissions by source  Proportion of total UK greenhouse gases emissions by end user 
			 Residential Properties 14.1 24.4 
			 Business Premises 16.3 33.8 
			 Industrial Processes 2.9 3.0 
			 Power Generation 34.3 — 
			 Cars 11.5 14.1 
			 Buses 0.5 0.6 
			 Domestic Aviation 0.4 0.4 
		
	
	
		
			  Table 2: The global warming potential of greenhouse gases included in the Kyoto protocol basket 
			  Gas  Global warming potential (100 year time horizon) 
			 Carbon dioxide 1 
			 Methane 21 
			 Nitrous Oxide 310 
			 Hydrofluorocarbons 140-11,700 
			 Perfluorocarbons 6,500-9,200 
			 Sulphur hexafluoride 23,900

Anti-semitism

Nigel Evans: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many anti-semitic incidents were reported in each police force area in England in each of the last 10 years.

Tony McNulty: The police treat anti-semitic incidents as racist incidents. Their definition when recording such incidents is:
	"any incident which is regarded as racist by the victim or any other person."
	This is the definition recommended by the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry. The statistics available centrally do not distinguish between religiously and racially aggravated crime, or, more specifically, anti-semitic incidents.

Domestic Violence

David Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many  (a) males and  (b) females have reported a physical assault by a (i) current and (ii) former partner in the last five years; and if he will make a statement.

Gerry Sutcliffe: The British Crime Survey (BCS) routinely provides information on the number of incidents of domestic violence against men and women (but not on the actual number of victims), but this is not broken down by whether the perpetrator is a current or former partner.
	The British Crime Survey (BCS) also collects information on whether victims report crimes to the police, but this is not broken down by victim's sex or by whether it was a domestic violence incident or not. Reporting rates for 2004-05 are available from the latest annual crime statistics publication.
	The 2004-05 British Crime Survey estimated that there were, in total 308,000 incidents of domestic violence against women in England and Wales, and 92,000 against men. The number of incidents of domestic violence as measured by the BCS has decreased by 48 per cent. from 1999 to 2004-05 BCS interviews.
	The BCS figures are estimates only. As they are derived from a sample they are subject to sampling error, also the context of the face-to-face BCS interview means the estimates are certain to be underestimates of the true extent due to the fact that some respondents may be unwilling to reveal experience of domestic violence to interviewers. To address this, self-completion components for those aged 16-59 on domestic violence have been included in the 1996, 2001, 2004-05, and 2005-06 BCS. Results from the 2001 BCS self-completion module on domestic violence were published in Home Office Research Study No.276. According to this more confidential approach to measurement prevalence (per cent. of population victim at least once) rates for last year domestic assault were approximately five times higher than in the main face-to-face BCS. Also according to this report, 80 per cent. of the domestic violence incidents suffered by women in the 12 months prior to interview were from current spouses or partners, and 20 per cent. from ex-spouses/partners. The respective figures for men were 86 and 14 per cent. It also showed that the police came to know about the (worst) incident of domestic violence suffered in the 12 months prior to interview in 23 per cent. of cases suffered by women, and 8 per cent. of cases suffered by men. Overall, in 72 per cent. of the cases that the police came to know about, the victim reported it (rather than someone else such as family member or friend, or police came to know about in another way).
	
		
			  Number of BCS incidents of domestic violence, 1999 to 2004-05 
			  Thousand 
			  England and Wales  Women  Men 
			 1999 560 194 
			 2001-02 ints 514 122 
			 2002-03 ints 366 135 
			 2003-04 ints 298 150 
			 2004-05 ints 308 92 
			  Sources: 2000, 2001-02, 2002-03, 2003-04 and 2004-05 British Crime Surveys

Electronic Monitoring

Henry Bellingham: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people have been subject to electronic monitoring in each year since 1999; and if he will make a statement.

Gerry Sutcliffe: Figures are available for the financial year 1998-99 onwards and are presented in the following table:
	
		
			   Number monitored 
			 1998-99 3,503 
			 1999-2000 19,073 
			 2000-01 19,962 
			 2001-02 21,796 
			 2002-03 37,924 
			 2003-04 46,472 
			 2004-05 53,230 
			 2005-06 54,329 
			 Total 256,289 
			  Notes:1. Figures for 1998-99 are from 28 January 1999.2. Figures for 2005-06 are until 28 February 2006.3. The number monitored is the number of new starts on electronic monitoring, rather than the caseload at any one time.

Feltham Young Offenders Institute

Vincent Cable: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department 
	(1)  how often psychiatric risk assessment tests are conducted on inmates at Feltham Young Offenders' Institution;
	(2)  what proportion of offenders at Feltham Young Offenders' Institute are recognised as having  (a) mild and  (b) severe psychiatric disorders;
	(3)  what post-release psychiatric care prisoners receive who have been diagnosed with psychiatric disorders whilst detained at Feltham Young Offenders' Institution.

Gerry Sutcliffe: Information on the frequency of psychiatric risk tests at Feltham Young Offenders' Institution is not collected centrally. Although inmates may be referred to the community mental health in-reach team, in line with national policy, information is not then collected that would allow a count of the number of psychiatric risk assessment tests that are carried out.
	Information on the proportion of offenders with psychiatric disorders at Feltham is not available centrally.
	On release, offenders who meet the appropriate criteria are subject to the care programme approach, and leave prison with a full care plan for their future mental health care.

Firearms

Peter Bone: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what criteria were used in drawing up proposals  (a) to restrict the use of .338 and 50 calibre rifles and  (b) to ban the use of semi-automatic shotguns and .22 calibre weapons.

Tony McNulty: Proposals are based on a recommendations by the Firearms Consultative Committee that weapons of excessive power, including those chambered for .50 calibreBMG rounds, should not be permitted for target shooting.

Identity Cards

Don Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department pursuant to his answer of 27 March 2006,  Official Report, column 758W, on identity cards, whether the second identity card issued to the same standard but not for the purposes of travel will be issued automatically; and whether a charge will be imposed.

Joan Ryan: Arrangements regarding the surrender of an identity card valid for travel by an individual subject to a football banning order will be specified closer to the time of introduction of identity cards. An identity card which will not be valid for travel will be issued to the same standard as card which will be valid for travel.

Legislation

David Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent representations he has received about the operation of sections 4, 4A, 4B and 4C of the Theft Act 1968; and whether he has plans to amend this Act.

Gerry Sutcliffe: I have not received any Representations recently about the operation of any part of section four of the Theft Act 1968. I have no current plans to amend this part of the 1968 Act.

National Identity Register

Lynne Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether there exists a prohibition in law on supplying data from the National Identity Register to a foreign government for purposes connected with  (a) national security and  (b) the prevention and detection of crime.

Joan Ryan: Section 18 of the Identity Cards Act allows information to be provided to overseas authorities, for example law enforcement agencies, for the purposes of criminal proceedings and investigations, as provided for in section 17 of the Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001. This is subject to safeguards provided in section 21 of the Identity Cards Act and section 18 of the 2001 Act. Other than that, there is no provision, or power to make provision, in the Identity Cards Act for information from the NIR to be provided, without consent, overseas.

Parking Fines

Eric Pickles: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate the Government have made of the total revenue raised from parking fines in England in the most recent year for which figures are available.

Gerry Sutcliffe: Information on the total revenue from parking fines is not collected centrally.
	However estimates are given in the table based on information collected by the Office for Criminal Justice Reform on the number of fixed penalties issued and fines given at court for 2004 (latest available). This information is published in the Home Office publication "Offences relating to motor vehicles, England and Wales Supplementary tables". Copies of the publication are available in the Library.
	The Court Proceedings Database and the Fixed Penalty Notices collection do not distinguish between obstruction, waiting and parking contraventions. The decision as to whether to issue a fixed penalty notice is a matter for the police and where the offence is decriminalised, a matter for the local authority.
	Not all fines and fixed penalties will have been paid.
	Information for 2005 will be available early in 2007.
	Under the Road Traffic Act 1991, Decriminalised Parking Enforcement (DPE) powers allow local authorities to take over responsibility for enforcing parking contraventions from the police. Not all local authorities operate decriminalised parking enforcements so such data on fixed penalty charges issued under DPE powers are not included within the table. Data on penalty charge notices (PCNs) from local authorities operating Decriminalised Parking Enforcement can be found in the Home Office publication "Offences relating to motor vehicles, England and Wales 2004, Supplementary tables". The latest publication 2004 (Tables 22(a)-22(b) refers) lists data by local authorities partaking in the scheme. Copies of the publication are available in the Library. The publication can also be accessed on the Home Office Research Development and Statistics (RDS) website.

Parole

David Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department 
	(1)  how many convicted murderers released on parole in each of the last 15 years have broken the terms of their release;
	(2)  how many convicted rapists released on parole in each of the last 15 years have subsequently broken the terms of their release;
	(3)  how many convicted burglars released on parole in each of the last 15 years have subsequently broken the terms of their release.

Gerry Sutcliffe: Information on the number of convicted rapists and convicted burglars released on parole in each of the last six years who have subsequently been recalled is provided in the following table. This information is as recorded on the Prison Service IT system. Information prior to 1999-2000 is only available at disproportionate cost.
	Information on the number of murderers released on life licence who have subsequently been recalled is available only at disproportionate cost. Table 10.9 of Offender Management Caseload Statistics 2004 gives the number of recalls from life licence (for any offence) between 1999 and 2004.
	
		
			  Number of recalls of determinate sentenced prisoners of four years or more released on parole—rape and burglary 
			   Rape  Burglary 
			 1999-2000 8 41 
			 2000-01 7 27 
			 2001-02 13 52 
			 2002-03 15 74 
			 2003-04 16 97 
			 2004-05 17 110

Passports

David Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department 
	(1)  how many passport applications were refused on the grounds of the inability of the applicant to produce his or her father's marriage certificate in each of the last three years for which figures are available;
	(2)  when he plans to review the documentation requirements for the issue of new 10-year passports.

Joan Ryan: The documentation required from passport applicants is that which establishes the person's claim to British nationality. For persons born in the UK since the British Nationality Act 1981 came into force on one January 1983, this depends on a parent having been a British citizen or settled in the UK at the time of the birth. The Act provides that for the purposes of determining British nationality, the relationship of father and child shall be taken to exist only between a man and any legitimate child born to him. Therefore a passport applicant who wishes to establish that he is a British citizen because his or her father was a British citizen when the applicant was born needs to provide his or her father's marriage certificate. To establish the number of applications which were unsuccessful because this certificate could not be provided would require a search of individual case records and could not be done without disproportionate expense.
	This provision of the 1981 Act is to be amended by Section nine of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 when that provision is brought into force but it will not apply retrospectively. This will extend the definition of father for the purposes of the 1981 Act to include any person who satisfies prescribed requirements as to proof of paternity. The requirements for passport applications will be reviewed when this change in the law on nationality comes into effect.

Passports

Gregory Campbell: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many UK Passports were reported  (a) lost and  (b) stolen in Northern Ireland in each of the last three years.

Joan Ryan: It is not possible for the UK Passport Service to identify exactly how many passports were reportedly lost or stolen in Northern Ireland. However, the Belfast passport office, which serves the Northern Ireland area, processed the following reports of  (a) loss and  (b) theft of a passport for the calendar years of 2004, 2005 and 2006 to date.
	
		
			   Belfast 
			   Lost  Stolen 
			 2004 9,496 1,959 
			 2005 9,615 1,117 
			 2006 (to date) 3,615 402 
		
	
	The total figures across the UK for the last three years are as follows:
	
		
			   Lost  Stolen  Other  Total 
			 2003 — — — (1)184,301 
			 2004 212,745 50,737 11,558 275,040 
			 2005 230,011 45,709 11,268 286,988 
			 2006 83,289 14,328 (2)4,064 101,681 
			 (1) Combined total(2) To date

Police Community Support Officers

Helen Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many community support officers have been recruited in  (a) Cheshire and  (b) Warrington in each year since the scheme was introduced.

Tony McNulty: Information relating to the number of full-time equivalent police community support officers (PCSOs) in each police force area have been collected by RDS since 2003 and is provided in the table.
	Data on PCSOs within Basic Command Units (BCU) is only collected annually. As at 30 June 2005, the Northern Area of Cheshire constabulary, which includes Warrington, had 46 PCSOs.
	Deployment of PCSOs within Cheshire Division is an operational matter for the Divisional Commander.
	
		
			  Police community support officer strength in Cheshire, (2003-05) 
			   Cheshire( 1) 
			 As at 31 March 2003 2 
			 As at 31 March 2004 50 
			 As at 30 September 2004 47 
			 As at 31 March 2005 81 
			 As at 30 September 2005 77 
			 (1) The figures in this table are based on full-time equivalent figures including staff on career breaks or maternity/paternity leave, and have been rounded to the nearest whole number.

Prisons

Henry Bellingham: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department 
	(1)  what assessment he has made of the level of contraband in each prison; and if he will make a statement;
	(2)  what quantities of  (a) mobile phones, drugs and  (c) alcohol have been found in each prison in each month over the last year; and if he will make a statement.

Gerry Sutcliffe: An item of contraband is any item or article that a prison governor identifies or considers to pose a risk to security or the good order of the prison. Contraband does not form a specific group on the Incident Reporting System (IRS). In the last two months one, 394 miscellaneous incidents were recorded on IRS a small proportion of these incidents relate to contraband, analysing this would be at a disproportionate cost.
	Information on the level of restricted items in each prison is not collated centrally. However, the number of drug incidents, finds of mobile phones (and associated equipment) and alcohol (including "home brewed alcohol") are detailed in tables placed in the Libraries of the House.

Prisons

Diana Johnson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many prisoners underwent treatment for drugs dependence in  (a) Kingston upon Hull North constituency,  (b) the Humberside police area and  (c) England and Wales in each of the last five years.

Gerry Sutcliffe: Figures for prisoners undergoing drug treatment in each of the last five years are given in the following table.
	There are no prisons in  (a) Kingston upon Hull North constituency. Figures for programme completion were not collected prior to 2004-05.
	
		
			   2001-02  2002-03  2003-04  2004-05  2005-06( 1) 
			  Humberside police area( 2)  
			 CARATs 943 1,527 1,625 1,497 1,787 
			 Detox 1,194 1,236 1,676 1,462 1,389 
			 Programmes entrants 72 102 95 105 319 
			 completions n/a n/a n/a 68 247 
			   
			  England and Wales  
			 CARATs 39,338 51,896 54,125 59,025 74,588 
			 Detox 41,765 50,701 57,891 53,903 53,323 
			 Programmes entrants 4,691 4,386 4,703 7,609 10,729 
			 completions n/a n/a n/a 4,902 8,036 
			 (1) Provisional  (2 )HMP Hull, HMP Everthorpe, HMP Wolds and HMP Full Sutton

Prisons

Lynne Featherstone: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much has been spent at each prison by the Prison Service on drug treatments in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.

Gerry Sutcliffe: Individual prison drug treatment spend is not recorded centrally. Prisons have instead focused on drug treatment delivery against high-level targets. Additional drug treatment funding allocated to prisons globally over the past five years is shown in the following table:
	
		
			  £ million 
			  Intervention  2001-02  2002-03  2003-04  2004-05  2005-06 
			 Clinical services (detoxification and/or maintenance-prescribing) 7.30 7.30 11.30 11.30 11.30 
			 CARATs (Counselling, Assessment, Referral, Advice & Through-care services) 12.91 14.30 17.40 23.20 26.70 
			 Drug rehabilitation programmes 7.09 7.10 9.00 13.90 19.40 
			 Juvenile substance-misuse service (JSMS) — — — 2.30 3.10 
			 Total 27.30 28.70 37.70 50.70 60.50

Security Industry

Eric Pickles: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people are employed by the Security Industry Authority to process licences.

Vernon Coaker: The Security Industry Authority (SIA) has contracted out the checking and processing of licence applications to BT who is their managed service provider. The final decision to grant or refuse a licence is then made by SIA staff. A mix of permanent and temporary staff is employed to manage the volume variations caused by the late response of the security industry to the introduction of licensing. To help manage the late rush of application the SIA have opened two temporary processing units, one managed by BT one by the SIA. In total there are 186 staff employed by BT and the SIA to deliver licensing to applicants.

Victim Support Compensation

David Drew: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what plans he has to include access to victim support compensation payments for victims of offences that result in a caution to the perpetrator.

Gerry Sutcliffe: No plans are needed. Such victims are already eligible for compensation provided the injury is sufficiently serious to qualify for the minimum award payable under the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme (CICS).
	The standard of proof required by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (CICA) in determining claims under the Scheme is ' the balance of probabilities'. That is the standard of proof required in the civil courts. For CICS purposes, that means it is not necessary for the offender to have been convicted of the crime causing the injury, and compensation may be paid in cases where the offender is not caught or even identified.

Violent Crime

Jim Cunningham: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps the Government are taking to tackle violent crime in Coventry, South and the Midlands.

Tony McNulty: The Government are currently taking forward a very full range of work which will continue to reduce violent crime.
	Through the Tackling Violent Crime Programme (TVCP), we are working intensively with practitioners in a small number of local areas with high volumes of more serious violent crime—in particular alcohol-related and domestic violence—with a view to identifying, developing, disseminating and embedding good practice. Activities to tackle alcohol-related disorder have included intervening early in the evening with a view to preventing the escalation of violence, and conducting multi-agency visits to problem licensed premises. We are working to improve investigation of domestic violence with a view to bringing more domestic violence offences to justice.
	In the Midlands, Coventry is one of the areas that has been involved in the TVCP (along with Wolverhampton and Nottingham) and two more areas (Birmingham, and Leicester) are due to join the programme over the next couple of months. In addition, the regional Government office for the West Midlands is planning a regional TVCP in up to 11 areas during 2006-07.
	Coventry has an existing specialist domestic violence court and is included in the Specialist Domestic Violence Court Programme's roll out plan to implement the nationally agreed core components of a specialist domestic violence court system across all of West Midlands over the coming year.
	We are introducing new measures which will give police and local communities the powers they need to tackle guns, knives and alcohol-related violence in the Violent Crime Reduction Bill which is currently before Parliament.
	And, for example, plans have been developed with the Association of Chief Police Officers for a nation-wide knife amnesty, which will begin in late May.

Advertising

David Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much was spent on advertising by his Department in each of the last three years.

Parmjit Dhanda: DfES expenditure on advertising for the last three years is set out as follows:
	
		
			   Advertising spend (£ million) 
			 2003-04 17.0 
			 2004-05 11.8 
			 2005-06(1) 8.3 
			 (1) Formal departmental resource accounts for 2005-06 are not yet finalised.   Note:  All expenditure is exclusive of VAT.

Disabled Children

Brian Jenkins: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what estimate he has made of the number of children of each  (a) sex and  (b) ethnic group with a disability.

Parmjit Dhanda: Currently, the Department collects information about the numbers of pupils in the country with different types of special educational need (SEN) but specific information on pupils with a disability is not collected.
	Many pupils identified as having SEN will also be disabled as the definition of SEN includes:
	"Children who have a disability which prevents or hinders them from making use of educational facilities of a kind generally provided for children of the same age in schools within the area of the local education authority".
	Work is in progress to identify a common disability data set that can be used to collect information across children's services to better inform planning, policy development and the monitoring of outcomes for disabled children.
	Information given in the following table shows numbers of pupils of each sex and ethnic group who have special educational needs (SEN):
	
		
			  Maintained primary and secondary schools( 1) : number of pupils with special educational needs by ethnic group( 2, 3) January 2006( 4) , England 
			   Pupils of compulsory school age and above 
			   Maintained Primary  Maintained Secondary 
			   Pupils with SEN without statement( 5)  Pupils with statements of SEN  Pupils with SEN without statement( 5)  Pupils with statements of SEN 
			   Number ( 5)  Percentage ( 6)  Number  Percentage ( 7)  Number ( 5)  Percentage ( 6)  Number  Percentage ( 7) 
			 White 531,440 19.5 49,650 1.8 415,500 15.0 63,040 2.3 
			 White British 507,640 19.4 47,930 1.8 400,340 15.0 61,170 2.3 
			 Irish 2,460 20.0 260 2.1 1,830 14.9 290 2.4 
			 Traveller of Irish Heritage 1,750 57.7 80 2.5 490 46.0 70 6.8 
			 Any other White Background 17,090 19.4 1,240 1.4 11,880 15.8 1,330 1.8 
			 Gypsy/Roma 2,490 47.9 150 2.8 960 41.8 190 8.2 
			 Mixed 23,630 20.1 2,020 1.7 14,180 16.8 1,850 2.2 
			 White and Black Caribbean 9,380 23.4 740 1.8 6,380 20.9 800 2.6 
			 White and Black African 2,630 21.0 190 1.5 1,390 17.3 150 1.9 
			 White and Asian 3,730 15.4 340 1.4 1,990 11.8 310 1.8 
			 Any other Mixed Background 7,900 19.4 750 1.9 4,430 15.4 600 2.1 
			 Asian 50,610 19.0 4,020 1.5 33,160 15.0 3,910 1.8 
			 Indian 10,780 13.9 910 1.2 7,500 9.6 940 1.2 
			 Pakistani 25,720 23.3 2,060 1.9 16,530 19.9 2,010 2.4 
			 Bangladeshi 9,630 20.7 700 1.5 5,760 17.6 660 2.0 
			 Any other Asian Background 4,480 14.4 350 1.1 3,380 12.6 300 1.1 
			 Black 37,420 25.2 2,880 1.9 24,890 21.2 2,530 2.2 
			 Black Caribbean 13,860 28.5 1,080 2.2 10,470 24.3 1,330 3.1 
			 Black African 19,550 23.3 1,440 1.7 11,580 19.1 870 1.4 
			 Any other Black Background 4,010 25.4 360 2.3 2,850 20.6 330 2.4 
			 Chinese 1,160 10.5 150 1.3 1,190 9.2 140 1.1 
			 Any other Ethnic Group 7,500 20.1 520 1.4 5,150 17.3 410 1.4 
			 Classified 651,770 19.7 59,240 1.8 494,080 15.3 71,880 2.2 
			 Unclassified(8) 10,750 23.4 910 2.0 12,560 16.2 2,050 2.6 
			 All pupils(2) 662,520 19.8 60,150 1.8 506,630 15.3 73,930 2.2 
			 (1) Includes middle schools as deemed  (2) Pupils of compulsory school age and above  (3) Excludes dually registered pupils  (4 )Provisional  (5 )Includes pupils at School Action and School Action Plus  (6) The number of pupils with SEN without statements expressed as a percentage of all pupils (aged 5 and over) of the same ethnic origin.  (7) The number of pupils with statements of SEN expressed as a percentage of all pupils (aged 5 and over) of the same ethnic origin.  (8 )Information was not sought or refused   Source:  Annual Schools Census 
		
	
	
		
			  Maintained Primary and Secondary Schools( 1) : Pupils with special educational needs by gender January 2006( 2) 
			   Maintained Primary  Maintained Secondary 
			   Pupils with SEN without a statement( 3)  Pupils with a statement of SEN  Pupils with SEN without a statement( 3)  Pupils with a statement of SEN 
			 Female 249,200 18,070 190,440 20,120 
			 Male 467,560 46,850 316,220 53,820 
			 Total 716,750 64,910 506,670 73,930 
			 (1) Includes middle schools as deemed and excludes dually registered pupils  (2) Provisional  (3 )Includes pupils at School Action and School Action Plus Source: Annual Schools Census.

Dyslexic Children

David Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills 
	(1)  what resources are allocated in  (a) Southend on Sea and  (b) England to the training of teachers in detecting and teaching dyslexic children; and if he will make a statement;
	(2)  what estimate he has made of the number of dyslexic  (a) children and  (b) adults in each of the last 10 years;
	(3)  what recent research his Department has  (a) commissioned and  (b) evaluated on dyslexia; and if he will make a statement;
	(4)  what figures his Department collects on the number of children under 16 years of age with dyslexia; and if he will make a statement.

Parmjit Dhanda: To be awarded qualified teacher status (QTS), all trainee teachers must demonstrate that they understand their responsibilities under the statutory SEN code of practice, know how to seek advice from specialists where necessary, and can differentiate their teaching to meet the needs of pupils, including those with SEN.
	The National Standards for qualified teachers status and the Induction Programme for Newly Qualified Teachers (NQT) both cover SEN, including specific learning difficulties such as dyslexia. Nets are required to demonstrate that they can plan effectively to meet the needs of pupils in their class with SEN, with or without a statement, and in consultation with the school's SEN Co-ordinator, contribute to the preparation and implementation of individual pupils1 education plans or the equivalent.
	The Department is working with the Training and Development Agency for Schools to take forward a range of specific initiatives designed to improve the skills and confidence of trainee, newly qualified, and established teachers in supporting pupils with SEN and disabilities.
	All schools have a school development grant that they can use, amongst other things, for the purposes of supporting the continuing professional development of teachers in relation to their understanding and knowledge of SEN and disability issues. A wide variety of courses are available covering SEN, including dyslexia, ranging from awareness-raising through to in-depth studies leading to specific qualifications. It is, however, a matter for individual teachers and their schools to determine their own particular training and development needs.
	No information is collected centrally which would enable the Government to make an estimate of the number of children and adults with dyslexia. However, since 2004, the Department for Education and Skills have collected data on pupils by type of SEN as part of the annual school census. Dyslexia is included within specific learning difficulties (SpLD)—which also covers dyscalculia and dyspraxia. We have data on pupils with SEN at 'School Action Plus' and with a statement of SEN where SpLD is recorded as their primary need. The number of pupils aged under 16 with SpLD in maintained schools in 2006 was just under 77,000. We do not have data on pupils whose needs are met at 'School Action' or where SpLD is a secondary or other need.
	The Department has not commissioned any recent research on dyslexia.

Education Maintenance Allowance

Vincent Cable: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what assessment she has made of the capacity of further education institutions to administer the education maintenance allowance in-house from 2007-08.

Parmjit Dhanda: This is a matter for the Learning and Skills Council, who operate education maintenance allowances for the DfES. Mark Haysom, the Council's Chief Executive has written to the hon. Member with the information requested and a copy of his reply has been placed in the House Library.
	 Letter from Mark Haysom, dated 15 February 2006:
	I am writing in response to your Parliamentary Question that asked 'how much has been spent on administration of educational maintenance allowance in each year since the scheme was piloted; and how much is expected to be spent in each year until 2009-10'.
	 EMA Pilots
	It is not possible to be precise about the expenditure on administration during the pilot period. The table below shows the total expenditure and the approximated administration expenditure on the Education Maintenance Allowance pilots by financial year.
	
		
			  £ million 
			   1999-2000  2000-01  2001-02  2002-03  2003-04 
			 Full costs 11 52 109 120 142 
			 Administration costs (approximate) 0.44 2.08 4.4 4.8 5.7 
		
	
	EMA pilots were administered through local authorities in areas identified as having low percentages of young people staying on in education post-16. Administration costs were agreed on the basis of type of pilot and volumes, and were subject to audit. Payments varied across the local authorities but on average administration costs were around 3-4 % of the full claim made by the local authority.
	 EMA Main Scheme
	The table below shows the main scheme EMA provision for future years made in Annually Managed Expenditure (AME) by financial year.
	
		
			  £ million 
			   (Actual)  (Planned)  (Planned)  (Planned)  (Planned)  (Planned) 
			   2004-05  2005-06  2006-07  2007-08  2008-09( 1)  2009-10( 1) 
			 Full Costs 260 432 570 591 598 595 
			 Administration costs (approximate) 42.7 53.1 52.5 35.8 (1)— (1)— 
			 (1 )The figures for 2008-09 and 2009-10 are dependent on the outcomes of the Comprehensive Spending Review. 
		
	
	The EMA main scheme commenced from the beginning of the 2004/05 academic year and is administered through schools and colleges. The costs shown include set-up and publicity expenditure, payments to colleges and schools for them to set up administrative arrangements, and payments to the Assessment and Payment Body for processing.
	Roll-out of the scheme is continuing, with consequent planned increases in volumes. From April EMA is also being extended to young people on Entry to Employment (E2E) and Programme Led Pathways. This expansion is covered within the figures for 2006-07 and 2007-08, and unit costs decrease as the scheme beds in.
	I hope this information is helpful and addresses your question. If you would like further details please contact Philip Brewins at the LSC National Office on 0114 207 4513 or Philip. Brewins@lsc.gov.uk

Education Maintenance Allowance

Dan Norris: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many residents of Wansdyke constituency are  (a) eligible for and  (b) in receipt of the education maintenance allowance.

Parmjit Dhanda: This is a matter for the Learning and Skills Council, who operate education maintenance allowances for the DfES and hold the information about take-up of the scheme. Mark Haysom, the council's chief executive, has written to my hon. Friend with the information requested and a copy of his reply has been placed in the House Library.
	 Letter from Mark Haysom dated 15 March 2006:
	I am writing in response to your Parliamentary Question regarding Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA).
	Information on the number of young people who have applied, enrolled and received EMA is available at Local Education Authority (LEA) level, but not at constituency level. EMA take-up is defined as young people who have received one or more EMA payment in the academic year 2005/06.
	Projections of the number of young people eligible for EMA are formed by applying income distributions (derived from the Family Resources Survey) and expected numbers in full-time further education. When applied to individual localities the figures may be subject to some variation but they provide a useful estimate.
	The following table displays the data for South Gloucestershire and Bath and North East Somerset.
	
		
			  Take-up of EMA in 2005/06 (by the end of January 2006) 
			  LEA  Projected number eligible  Actual take-up 
			 South Gloucestershire 1,950 1,387 
			 Bath and North East Somerset 1,320 1,011 
		
	
	In modelling EMA take-up we also produce projections for the number of young people expected to receive one or more EMA payment in each LEA. In producing these projections we have taken account of the take-up in the first year of the national scheme and factored an expected increase for year two. The following table displays this data.
	
		
			  Take-up of EMA in 2005/06 (by the end of January 2006) 
			  LEA  Projected take-up of EMA  Actual take-up 
			 South Gloucestershire 1,530 1,387 
			 Bath and North East Somerset 1,040 1,011 
		
	
	I hope this information is helpful and addresses your question.

Former Civil Servants (Consultants)

John Hayes: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many former members of his Department have notified the civil service authorities under civil service regulations that they are working for  (a) lobbyists and  (b) consultants; which companies are involved in each case; and whether the company is employed by his Department.

Parmjit Dhanda: The information in the form requested could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
	All staff who leave the Department are subject to the Business Appointment Rules issued by the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments.
	A list of all Business Appointment applications considered by advisory committee is published in the committee's annual report, copies of which can be obtained from the Library.

Pupil/Teacher Ratio

Matthew Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the average pupil/teacher ratio in primary schools in  (a) Cornwall,  (b) the South-West Region and  (c) England was in each year since 2001.

Jim Knight: The following table provides the pupil teacher ratio in maintained primary schools in Cornwall local authority, the South West government office region and England, in each January from 2001 to 2006. Information for 2006 is not yet available at local authority level.
	
		
			  Pupil:teacher ratios in maintained primary schools in Cornwall local authority, South West government office region and England, as at January of each year 
			   2001  2002  2003  2004  2005  2006( 1) 
			 Cornwall 22.9 22.3 22.4 22.6 22.6 n/a 
			 South West 23.0 22.4 22.4 22.6 22.5 21.8 
			 England 22.9 22.5 22.6 22.7 22.5 22.0 
			 n/a = Not available.(1) Provisional.Source:Annual School Census

Racial Abuse Complaints

David Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many complaints of racial abuse have been  (a) investigated and  (b) upheld in his Department in each of the last five years.

Parmjit Dhanda: The Department's investigation procedure, to consider allegations of racial abuse, has been initiated less than five times in each of the last five years. On this basis, we regret that the information is suppressed on grounds of confidentiality.
	The DfES believes that everyone should have an equal opportunity to meet their aspirations, realise their full potential and improve their life chances and we aspire to be an exemplar equal opportunities employer, and create a workplace which values diversity and is free from any form of unfair discrimination.
	The Department does not tolerate unacceptable behaviour towards others. Formal complaints of racial abuse are investigated quickly and thoroughly and where complaints are upheld, appropriate disciplinary action is taken.

School Day

David Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the average length of the school day in England was in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement.

Parmjit Dhanda: The requested information for England is not collected centrally.
	For information on Wales I refer the right hon. Member to the Welsh Assembly.

Access to Justice

Anne Milton: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs what steps her Department is taking to improve access to justice for those who  (a) are not eligible for legal aid and  (b) are unable to find a solicitor who will take on their case via legal aid.

Vera Baird: The information is as follows:  (a) Conditional Fee Agreements (CFAs) enable solicitors to undertake cases on the basis that they will only charge their fee in the event of success and nothing in the event of failure. The Government have extended the use of CFAs so that they are now available for all civil proceedings, except family proceedings. We recently completed a major simplification of the regulation of CFAs to make the process easier for consumers to understand. In January this year the Government launched a straightforward guide for consumers to help them to get the information they need to make an informed choice about the most appropriate legal adviser for them. My Department is working closely with Community Legal Service Direct to develop this guidance further to ensure that those consumers that are not eligible for legal aid have the confidence to shop effectively for their legal services. The Government's proposals for legal service reform will also improve access to justice by promoting competition within the legal profession and building consumer confidence in the sector.
	 (b) The Legal Services Commission (LSC) continues to work with suppliers to fill potential gaps where possible through outreach services and telephone advice. The LSC consulted last year on its strategy for the Community Legal Service (CLS), Making Legal Rights a Reality. The Commission's final strategy for the CLS was launched on 23 March 2006. One of the proposals is the development of Community Legal Advice Networks which will be particularly beneficial in less densely populated and larger geographical areas, as they will operate to ensure that services are joined up so as to provide a wider range of services to the client than previously available. Clients can find a local legal advisor through the Community Legal Service (CLS) Direct telephone helpline. Their telephone number is: 0845 345 4345 or alternatively their website is www.clsdirect.org.uk

Advertising

David Simpson: To ask the Minister of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs how much was spent on advertising by her Department in each of the last three years.

Vera Baird: Since its inception in June 2003, my Department, the Department for Constitutional Affairs has conducted the following advertising on:
	A regional poster campaign on buses to promote recruitment to the lay magistracy
	A national campaign to promote recruitment to the lay magistracy
	Radio and press adverts to target court fine defaulters (under the title Operation Payback)
	Press adverts to promote voting fraud prevention
	Lord Carter's Review of Legal Aid Procurement
	
		
			   Project  Expenditure on advertising (£) 
			 2003 Operation Payback (Phase 1) 230,000 
			  Magistrate recruitment 342,000 
			  
			 2004 Operation Payback (Phase 2) 292,000 
			  Magistrate recruitment 102,000 
			  
			 2005 Postal voting 185,270 
			  Magistrate recruitment 741,000 
			  Operation Payback (Phase 3) 263,082 
			  
			 2006 Magistrate recruitment 162,493 
			  Lord Carter's Review of Legal Aid Procurement 24,200

Abortion

David Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many abortions were performed on pregnancies of 18 weeks or more gestation in England and Wales in the last year for which figures are available; what the  (a) age of mother,  (b) residency of mother,  (c) grounds for abortion,  (d) marital status of mother,  (e) number of previous children and  (f) number of previous abortions were in each case; and how many and what percentage of those abortions were performed in the (i) public and (ii) private sector.

Caroline Flint: The information requested is shown in the table.
	
		
			  Abortions 18 weeks and over to residents of England and Wales and non-residents, by age, residency of mother, grounds, marital status, number of previous live or stillbirths and number of previous terminations, each by purchaser, 2004 
			   NHS( 1)  Private  
			   Total  Percentage  Private total  Percentage  Total 
			  Age at termination  
			 Under 16 years 179 88 25 12 204 
			 16 228 89 27 11 255 
			 17 328 89 40 11 368 
			 18 374 88 49 12 423 
			 19 370 82 82 18 452 
			 20 370 85 63 15 433 
			 21 304 79 79 21 383 
			 22 277 82 60 18 337 
			 23 256 78 71 22 327 
			 24 243 81 57 19 300 
			 25 181 78 50 22 231 
			 26 179 84 33 16 212 
			 27 156 79 41 21 197 
			 28 169 83 35 17 204 
			 29 144 80 36 20 180 
			 30 148 86 25 14 173 
			 31 132 80 33 20 165 
			 32 139 83 28 17 167 
			 33 127 85 23 15 150 
			 34 113 82 25 18 138 
			 35 102 84 19 16 121 
			 36 81 84 15 16 96 
			 37 88 86 14 14 102 
			 38 78 86 13 14 91 
			 39 65 86 11 14 76 
			 40 years and over 164 80 41 20 205 
			   
			  Residency of mother  
			 Residents(2) 4,871 90 563 10 5,434 
			 Other 124 22 432 78 556 
			   
			  Grounds for termination  
			 Section l(l)(a)(3) 4,049 81 978 19 5,027 
			 Other 946 98 17 2 963 
			   
			  Marital status  
			 Single no partner 1,262 82 275 18 1,537 
			 Single with partner 821 83 166 17 987 
			 Single status not stated 925 81 215 19 1,140 
			 Married 824 86 129 14 953 
			 Divorced/widowed separated 126 81 30 19 156 
			 Not known 1,037 85 180 15 1,217 
			   
			  Number of previous live or stillborn pregnancies  
			 0 2,810 81 648 19 3,458 
			 1 1,098 86 175 14 1,273 
			 2 648 86 106 14 754 
			 3 267 85 48 15 315 
			 4 and more 172 91 18 9 190 
			   
			  Number of previous terminations  
			 0 3,656 83 755 17 4,411 
			 1 1,074 85 185 15 1,259 
			 2 and more 265 83 55 17 320 
			   
			  Gestations  
			 18 weeks and over 4,995 83 995 17 5,990 
			 (1 )Includes abortions performed in NHS hospitals and the independent sector under an NHS contract.(2 )Residents of England and Wales.(3 )That the pregnancy has not exceeded its twenty-fourth week and that the continuance of the pregnancy would involve risk, greater than if the pregnancy were terminated, of injury to the physical or mental health of the pregnant woman or any existing children of her family. Note:Specific groups shown only where there are 10 or more cases in total.

Abortion

David Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what research her Department has  (a) undertaken and  (b) assessed on (i) the earliest point in its development an unborn child will experience pain, (ii) the earliest gestational age at which an unborn child may be capable of being born alive, (iii) the number of occasions when an unborn baby is wrongly diagnosed as being handicapped and is subsequently born without disability or handicap and (iv) the suicide rate among women who have had an abortion; and if she will make a statement.

Caroline Flint: The Department has not undertaken research on the following issues. However:
	The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologist's (RCOG) report 'Fetal Awareness, Report of a Working Party (1997)' concluded that before 26 weeks gestation the nervous system has not developed sufficiently to allow the fetus to experience pain.
	Guidance from the British Association of Perinatal Medicine introduces the concept of a threshold of viability as being from 22 to 26 weeks gestation. At low gestation age, even if the fetus is born alive, there are high risks of death due to immaturity. Indeed, while the possibility of survival of extremely pre-term babies has improved, data suggests that, even with modern intensive care, chances of survival at 22 weeks gestation are only approximately 1 per cent.
	There are currently variations in antenatal screening practice across England. The Government's aim are to move towards a more integrated policy to give women more informed choice in this area.
	Research shows that newer tests will lead to more accurate screening results. The aim of the research has been to identify the most effective and safe method of antenatal screening.
	In the confidential inquiry into maternal and child health's 2004 triennial report 'Why Mother's Die 2000-2002', none of the maternal suicides are attributed to abortion.
	The RCOG's evidence-based guideline 'The Care of Women Requesting Induced Abortion (2004)' recommends that referral for further counselling should be available for the small minority of women who experience long-term post-abortion distress.

Bedford Hospital NHS Trust

Nadine Dorries: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people employed in Bedford Hospital NHS trust have been on  (a) short-term and  (b) temporary contracts in each year since 1997; and if she will make a statement.

Andy Burnham: Information is not available in the format requested. However, the information in the following table shows the number of locum staff working in Bedfordshire hospitals national health service trust for the period that data is available covering the 2002 to 2005.
	
		
			  Hospital and community health services (HCHS): locum staff( 1)  working in Bedford hospitals NHS trust?by grade and year 
			  Number(headcount) 
			   Data as at 30 September each year 
			   2002  2003  2004  2005 
			 All staff 9 14 14 13 
			  Of which: 
			 Consultant 3 6 8 10 
			 Associate specialist/staff grade 1 2 2 0 
			 Registrar group 2 2 3 1 
			 Senior house officer 2 4 0 1 
			 House officer and foundation programme year one 0 0 1 0 
			 Hospital practitioner/clinical assistant 1 0 0 1 
			 (1) Excludes staff that hold a substantive contract. Source:The Information Centre for health and social care, medical and dental workforce census

Bedford Hospital NHS Trust

Nadine Dorries: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many full-time equivalent staff have been employed in children's wards at Bedford hospital NHS trust in each year since 1997; and if she will make a statement.

Andy Burnham: Information is not available in the format requested. However, the information in the following table gives the numbers of medical and dental staff with a paediatric specialty working in Bedford hospital national health service trust by grade and year.
	
		
			  Hospital and community health services: medical and dental staff with a paediatric specialty working in Bedford hospital  NHS trust by grade and year 
			  Full-time equivalents 
			   Data as at 30 September each year 
			   1997  1998  1999  2000  2001  2002  2003  2004  2005 
			 All staff 14 14 15 14 18 14 18 10 19 
			 Consultant 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 5 
			 Associate specialist/staff grade 1 1 1 1 3 3 3 2 1 
			 Registrar group 4 4 4 3 4 3 3 3 6 
			 Senior house officer 5 5 6 6 7 4 8 1 7 
			  Source:The Information Centre for health and social care, medical and dental workforce census

Dentistry

Andrew Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many  (a) new general dental services contracts and  (b) new personal dental services agreements which have been offered to dentists have been (i) signed and (ii) rejected in (A) each primary care trust and (B) England; and what percentage of the previous NHS dentistry service level is now offered in (1) each primary care trust and (2) England.

Rosie Winterton: holding answer 24 April 2006
	Data on provisional management estimates on the number of signed and rejected contracts which also sets out the estimated level of national health service services associated with accepted contracts compared with that of rejected contracts, based on weighted courses of treatment or units of dental activity has been placed in the Library.
	A contract may be for either a practice or an individual dentist.
	Primary care trusts are using the funding associated with rejected contracts to commission additional services from other dentists.

Dentistry

Diana Johnson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the average remuneration per full-time equivalent NHS general dental practitioner was in the East Hull and West Hull Primary Care Trust area in each year since 1997.

Rosie Winterton: Average remuneration per full-time equivalent national health service general dental practitioner in the Eastern Hull and West Hull Primary Care Trust area alone is not identifiable from data available centrally.
	All estimated average annual net incomes, between 1997-98 and 2004-05, of general dental services (GDS) dentists with a reasonable commitment to the GDS are shown in the following table. These are calculated by first estimating average gross GDS income of a dentist with a reasonable NHS commitment and then applying estimates of the expenses to earnings ratio covering all dentists.
	Estimated average GDS net income for dentists with a reasonable GDS commitment, 1997-98 to 2004-05, England and Wales.
	
		
			  Financial year  Estimated average net GDS income (£) 
			 1997-98 51,200 
			 1998-99 54,300 
			 1999-2000 55,700 
			 2000-01 59,200 
			 2001-02 60,500 
			 2002-03 63,300 
			 2003-04 66,700 
			 2004-05 70,000 
		
	
	The income figures cover both estimated fees for treatments and patient capitation as well as other estimated payments such as seniority payments and commitment payments and payments for maternity and sickness. Income from private sources is excluded from these estimates.
	When account is taken of the lower expenses ratio for dentists with a higher NHS commitment, the estimated average net GDS income for 2004-05 in the table would be about £74,000. In 2005-06, after allowing for the 3.4 per cent. fee increase, the average would be about £76,500 for a dentist with a reasonable NHS commitment.
	Separate information from tax returns provided to HM Revenue and Customs gives new income after expenses from all self-employed work, both NHS and private. For the 2003-04 tax year, average net income for non-associate dentists with very high NHS commitment was £78,600. This average will include some dentists working part-time. Non-associate dentist work either on their own or else in a partnership arrangement with other dentists.
	NHS dentists benefit from a contributory pension scheme. Dentists working privately have to fully fund their own pension arrangements.

Electromagnetic Fields

Mark Tami: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what research her Department has commissioned into the effect of electromagnetic fields on public health in the last five years.

Caroline Flint: The Department supports two broad programmes of research into the potential effects of electromagnetic fields (EMF) and health: one on radiofrequency fields (as emitted by mobile phones) and the other largely on extremely low frequency (ELF) fields (such as associated with power lines and domestic electrical supply).
	The mobile telecommunications and health research (MTHR) programme has been running since 2001. It is funded jointly by Government and industry and is managed by an independent scientific committee. A description of the programme and a list of ongoing and completed studies are available on the MTHR's website at www.mthr.org.uk.
	The Department's radiation protection research programme supports a number of studies investigating the possible health effects of other electromagnetic fields (largely ELF-EMF). These range from laboratory work investigating possible cellular effects to large population studies. Descriptions of these studies are available on the World Health Organisation (WHO) EMF research database at www.who.int/peh-emf/research/database/en/.
	In addition, the Department, along with the Health and Safety Executive, has supported the WHO's international EMF project since it started in 1997. Information about the EMF project is available on its web site at www.who.int/peh-mf/project/en/.
	In the United Kingdom, the Health Protection Agency's radiation protection division (HPA-RPD) has keeps the world-wide research findings on EMF and health continually under review. In 2004, the HPA-RPD, previously the National Radiological Protection Board, published a comprehensive review of scientific evidence in support of its current advice on limiting EMF exposure which is available on HPA's website at: www.hpa.org.uk/radiation/publications/documents_of_nrpb/abstracts/absd15-3.htm.

Emergency Contraception

Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many morning-after pills have been distributed by the Greater Peterborough Primary Care Partnership in each of the last five years.

Rosie Winterton: The information available is shown in the tables. Information on emergency hormonal contraception (EHC) supplied under a patient group direction (PGD) is not held centrally.
	Family planning clinic services for the Peterborough area are provided by North Peterborough primary care trust (PCT). The total number of occasions on which clinics run by this PCT prescribed post-coital contraceptives is published annually but the published figures include some instances where an intrauterine device was fitted.
	EHC via family planning clinics is collected by financial year:
	
		
			  Occasions on which hormonal post-coital contraceptives dispensed at family planning clinics provided by North Peterborough PCT, 2000-01 to 2004-05 
			   Number 
			 2000-01 116 
			 2001-02 85 
			 2002-03 128 
			 2003-04 67 
			 2004-05 38 
			  Source:Information Centre for health and social care, return KT31 
		
	
	EHC via general practice is collected by calendar year:
	
		
			  Total number of items (prescriptions) for hormonal post-coital contraception prescribed in North and South Peterborough for the last four years 
			   Number 
			 2002 1,626 
			 2003 1,506 
			 2004 1,433 
			 2005 1,314 
			  Source:ePACT

Funding (Northamptonshire)

Sally Keeble: To ask the Secretary of State for Health 
	(1)  what the capital expenditure on the  (a) breast screening unit,  (b) chest pain clinic,  (c) intensive treatment unit,  (d) stroke unit,  (e) secure mental health unit,  (f) integrated surgery unit and  (g) orthopaedic theatres in Northamptonshire has been since 1997;
	(2)  what the capital expenditure on health services in Northamptonshire was in each year between 1990 and 2005;

Andy Burnham: Information on capital expenditure by individual national health service organisations is not held centrally. The table shows total capital expenditure across the Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland Strategic Health Authority (SHA) area.
	
		
			  Total capital expenditure by organisations within the Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland Strategic Health Authority area 
			   £000 
			 1997-98 28,478 
			 1998-99 23,047 
			 1999-2000 27,773 
			 2000-01 36,093 
			 2001-02 73,403 
			 2002-03 95,078 
			 2003-04 72,771 
			 2004-05 73,065 
			  Notes:1. Revenue expenditure by strategic health authority area is taken as the total expenditure of the strategic health authority, predecessor health authorities and primary care trusts within the strategic health authority area. Capital expenditure includes NHS trusts within the area.2. Capital expenditure is the expenditure on the purchased additions of fixed assets.3. Levels of capital expenditure vary from year to year depending on local investment decisions.4. Expenditure on general dental services and pharmaceutical services accounted for by the Dental Practice Board and Prescription Pricing Authority, respectively, are excluded. This expenditure cannot be included within the figures for the individual health bodies as they are not included in commissioner accounts. Sources:Audited accounts of relevant health authorities 1997-98 and 1998-99Audited summarisation forms of relevant health authorities 1999-2000 to 2001-02Audited summarisation schedules of relevant primary care trusts 2000-01 to 2004-05Audited summarisation schedules of NHS Trusts 1997-98 to 2004-05Audited summarisation forms of Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland SHA 2002-03 to 2004-05

Health Services (Essex)

Bernard Jenkin: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many consultants per capita there were in Essex in each year since 1997; what the national average was in each year; and if she will make a statement.

Rosie Winterton: The table shows the number of medical and dental consultants by organisation within Essex strategic health authority area per head of population and the average for England for each year since 1997 to 2005, which is the latest data available.
	
		
			  Hospital and Community Health Services (HCHS) : medical and dental consultants by organisation within  Essex SHA and England , as at 30 September 2005 
			   Number (headcount) and number per population( 1) 
			1997  1998  1999  2000  2001  2002  2003  2004  2005 
			  England  21,474 22,324 23,321 24,401 25,782 27,070 28,750 30,650 31,993 
			 Per 100,000 population  44.1 45.7 47.6 49.6 52.1 54.5 57.7 61.2 63.9 
			
			  Essex SHA  467 478 481 496 526 582 600 667 686 
			 Per 100,000 population  29.6 30.1 30.1 30.9 32.5 35.9 36.8 40.8 41.9 
			
			 Basildon and Thurrock general hospital NHS Trust RDD 65 66 61 58 77 91 95 108 113 
			 Basildon PCT 5GR 0 0 0 0 0 4 5 6 5 
			 Billericay, Brentwood and Wickford PCT 5GP 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 1 
			 Castle Point and Rochford PCT 5JP 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 
			 Chelmsford PCT 5JN 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 1 1 
			 Colchester PCT 5GM 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 3 4 
			 Essex and Herts Community NHS Trust RQV 21 19 16 7 0 0 0 0 0 
			 Essex Rivers Healthcare NHS Trust RDE 75 75 83 84 90 95 98 114 117 
			 Essex SHA Q03 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 5 5 
			 Maldon and South Chelmsford PCT 5GL 0 0 0 0 6 7 3 3 2 
			 Mid Essex Community and Mental Health NHS Trust RP3 9 9 9 9 0 0 0 0 0 
			 Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust RQ8 88 95 97 97 102 116 121 135 138 
			 New Possibilities NHS Trust RDH 4 4 4 4 5 4 0 0 0 
			 North East Essex Mental Health NHS Trust RDJ 17 16 15 18 0 0 0 0 0 
			 North Essex HA QAX 7 6 7 5 6 0 0 0 0 
			 North Essex Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust RRD 0 0 0 0 31 32 37 37 39 
			 South Essex HA QAY 7 7 6 8 8 0 0 0 0 
			 South Essex Partnership NHS Trust RWIN 0 0 0 28 26 29 30 41 39 
			 Southend Community Care NHS Trust RDK 17 16 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 
			 Southend Hospital NHS Trust RAJ 90 89 92 100 97 106 113 118 122 
			 Southend on Sea PCT 5AK 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 
			 Tendring PCT 5AH 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 2 
			 Thameside Community Health Care NHS Trust RG8 11 12 14 0 0 0 0 0 0 
			 The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust RQW 56 64 62 78 78 82 81 88 93 
			 Thurrock PCT 5GQ 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 2 2 
			 Uttlesford PCT 5GN 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 
			 Witham, Braintree and Halstead Care Trust TAG 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 
			 (1) 2004 population figures from the 2001 ONS resident estimates have been used for 2005 calculations, as population figures for 2005 at organisation level are not yet available, this figure is therefore subject to change. Source: The Information Centre for health and social care medical and dental workforce census 2001 ONS Population Census

Health Services (Essex)

Bernard Jenkin: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the per capita funding for  (a) Colchester and  (b) Tendring Primary Care Trust was in each year since 1997; what the national average was in each year; and if she will make a statement.

Rosie Winterton: Revenue allocations were first made to primary care trusts in 2003-04. Prior to this, funding was allocated to health authorities (HAs).
	Funding per head of population in each year since 1997-98 for Colchester PCT, Tendring PCT, the former North Essex HA and the national average is shown in the following table.
	
		
			  Funding per head of population 
			  £ 
			   Colchester PCT  Tendring PCT  North Essex HA  England average 
			 1997-98 — — 398 443 
			 1998-99 — — 414 464 
			 1999-2000 — — 578 629 
			 2000-01 — — 634 688 
			 2001-02 — — 674 738 
			 2002-03 — — 744 817 
			 2003-04 758 961 — 903 
			 2004-05 830 1,068 — 986 
			 2005-06 993 1,289 — 1,172 
			 2006-07 1,079 1,455 — 1,274 
			 2007-08 1,178 1,610 — 1,388 
			  Notes:It is not possible to compare allocations rounds for the following reasons:1. organisational changes and changes made to the weighted capitation formula for each allocations round, mean that comparisons between allocations rounds would not be on a like with like basis;2. services for which PCTs are responsible for funding change over time. For example, 2006-07 is the first year that primary medical services were incorporated into revenue allocations.

Health Services (Essex)

Bernard Jenkin: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the financial outturn for the Essex Rivers Healthcare Trust has been in each of the last 10 years; and if she will make a statement.

Rosie Winterton: The information requested is shown in the following table.
	
		
			   Surplus/(deficit) (£000) 
			 1997-98 (2,384) 
			 1998-99 (2,897) 
			 1999-2000 (2,705) 
			 2000-01 8,505 
			 2001-02 30 
			 2002-03 22 
			 2003-04 (5,843) 
			 2004-05 293 
			  Source: Audited summarisation schedules of the Essex Rivers Healthcare National Health Service Trust

Health Services (Essex)

Bernard Jenkin: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the average waiting time for  (a) in-patient and  (b) out-patient treatment at Essex Rivers Healthcare Trust was in each year since 1997; and if she will make a statement.

Rosie Winterton: The following table shows mean and median times waited in days based on elective finished admission episodes, waiting list and booked cases, at Essex Rivers Healthcare NHS Trust for each year since 1997-98 to 2004-05 which is the latest data available. However, data on outpatient treatment times is not held centrally.
	
		
			   Waiting time in days 
			   Mean  Median 
			 1997-98 138 74 
			 1998-99 155 73 
			 1999-2000 153 75 
			 2000-01 137 69 
			 2001-02 135 79 
			 2002-03 134 81 
			 2003-04 131 85 
			 2004-05 103 75 
			  Notes: Finished admission episodesA finished admission episode is the first period of in-patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. Admissions do not represent the number of in-patients, as a person may have more than one admission within the year. Time Waited (days)Time waited statistics from hospital episode statistics (HES) are not the same as the published waiting list statistics. HES provides counts and time waited for all patients admitted to hospital within a given period whereas the published waiting list statistics count those waiting for treatment on a specific date and how long they have been on the waiting list. Also, HES calculates the time waited as the difference between the admission and decision to admit dates. Unlike published waiting list statistics, this is not adjusted for self-deferrals or periods of medical/social suspension. Ungrossed DataFigures have not been adjusted for shortfalls in data that is the data is ungrossed. Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), The Information Centre for health and social care

Health Services (Essex)

Bernard Jenkin: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many general practitioners per capita there were in  (a) Colchester and  (b) Tendring Primary Care Trust in each year since 1997; what the average ratio was for primary care trusts in each year; and if she will make a statement.

Rosie Winterton: Data relating to the number of general medical practitioners, which excludes retainers and registrars, one per 100,000 head of population, for Essex Strategic Health Authority and specified primary care trusts from 1997-2005 is shown in the table.
	
		
			  General medical practitioners (excluding retainers and registrars)( 1)  per 100,000 head of population, for Essex Strategic Health  Authority and specified primary care trusts, 1997-2005, England 
			  Number (headcount) 
			1997  1998  1999  2000  2001  2002  2003  2004  2005( 2) 
			 Q03  Essex  
			  All Practitioners (excluding retainers and registrars)(1) 821 830 831 829 816 803 866 915 959 
			  All Practitioners (excluding retainers and registrars)(1) per 100,000 head of population 52.0 52.3 52.0 51.6 50.5 49.5 53.1 55.9 58.6 
			   Of which:  
			 5GM  Colchester PCT  
			  All Practitioners (excluding retainers and registrars)(1) n/a n/a n/a n/a 87 87 85 91 102 
			  All Practitioners (excluding retainers and registrars)(1) per 100,000 head of population n/a n/a n/a n/a 55.0 54.7 52.8 55.9 62,6 
			 5AH  Tendring PCT  
			  All Practitioners (excluding retainers and registrars)(1) n/a n/a n/a n/a 65 61 73 77 77 
			  All Practitioners (excluding retainers and registrars)(1) per 100,000 head of population n/a n/a n/a n/a 47.5 44.2 52.6 55.3 55.3 
			 n/a = Data not applicable(1) General Medical Practitioners (excluding retainers and registrars) includes Contracted GPs, GMS Others and PMS Others. Prior to September 2004 this group included GMS Unrestricted Principals, PMS Contracted GPs, PMS Salaried GPs, Restricted Principals, Assistants, Salaried Doctors (Para 52 SFA), PMS Other, Flexible Career Scheme GPs and GP Returners.(2) 2004 population figures from the 2001 ONS resident estimates have been used for 2005 calculations, as population figures for 2005 at organisation level are not yet available, this figure is therefore subject to change. Note:Data as at 1 October 1997-1999 and 30 September 2000-05 Source:The Information Centre for health and social care, general and personal medical services statistics 2001 ONS Population Census

Health Services (Essex)

Bernard Jenkin: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether the star rating that the Essex Rivers Healthcare Trust received for the number of cancelled operations was due to  (a) clinical and  (b) administrative causes; how many cancelled operations there were in (a) 2005-06 and (b) each of the previous 10 years; and if she will make a statement.

Andy Burnham: Essex Rivers Healthcare National Health Service Trust was given the lowest band of performance by the Healthcare Commission for the cancelled operations performance indicator in the 2004-05 star ratings. The Trust cancelled 2.97 per cent. of operations at the last minute for non-clinical reasons. Trusts that cancelled fewer than 0.5 per cent. of operations were given a score of five (good), trusts that cancelled fewer than 1.5 per cent. of operations were given a score of three and all other trusts were given a score of one (poor) by the Commission.
	Requested information on cancelled operations is shown in the table.
	
		
			  Cancelled operations for non-clinical reasons—Essex Rivers Healthcare NHS Trust (RDE) 
			   Number of last minute cancellations for non-clinical reasons in the quarter 
			 2001-02 444 
			 2002-03 741 
			 2003-04 815 
			 2004-05 800 
			  Notes:Data were collected by Health Authority only prior to 2001-02. Trust level data were collected from 2001-02 onwards. Data for 2005-06 is not yet available.A last minute cancellation is one that occurs on the day the patient was due to arrive, after they have arrived in hospital or on the day of their operation. For example, you are to be admitted to hospital on a Monday for an operation scheduled for the following day (Tuesday). If the hospital cancels your operation for non-clinical reasons on the Monday then this would count as a last minute cancellation. This includes patients who have not actually arrived in hospital and have been telephoned at home prior to their arrival.An operation which is rescheduled to a time within 24 hours of the original scheduled operation should be recorded as a postponement and not as a cancellation. The quarterly monitoring of cancelled operations collection does not record the number of postponements.Some common non-clinical reasons for cancellations by the hospital include: ward beds unavailable; surgeon unavailable; emergency case needing theatre; theatre list over-ran; equipment failure; admin error; anaesthetist unavailable; theatre staff unavailable; and critical care bed unavailable.

Health Services (Essex)

Bernard Jenkin: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many incidences of abuse of staff by patients were reported in Essex Rivers Healthcare Trust in 2005-06; what the average number for trusts was in that year; and if she will make a statement.

Rosie Winterton: Data relating to the average number of incidences of abuse by trust is not held centrally. Information on incidences of abuse on staff by patients relating to Essex River Healthcare can be obtained by writing to the Chief Executive of that trust.

Intensive Care

Sally Keeble: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many intensive treatment unit beds there were in Northampton General Hospital in  (a) 1996 and  (b) 2005.

Andy Burnham: The average daily number of available intensive care beds at Northampton General Hospital for the years specified is shown in the table. Data is not yet available for 2005-06.
	
		
			   Intensive care beds available 
			 1996-97 18 
			 2004-05 21 
			  Source:Department of Health form KH03

Midwives

Norman Baker: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many vacant midwife posts there are in  (a) the Sussex Downs and Weald and  (b) the Eastbourne Downs Primary Care Trust area; and what plans her Department has to recruit midwives in these areas.

Caroline Flint: A range of work force supply strategies have been developed to support the recruitment and retention of more healthcare professionals across England, including midwives. These include:
	promoting careers in the national health service through NHS Careers and national, and local, recruitment campaigns;
	attracting back former staff to the service; and
	improving retention by becoming a better, more flexible and diverse employer.
	The information on midwife vacancies is not available in the format requested. The information in the table gives midwife numbers and vacancies by NHS trust in the Surrey and Sussex Strategic Health Authority (SHA) region.
	
		
			Midwives (March 2005)  Staff in post (September 2004) 
			Three month vacancy rate (percentage)  Three month vacancy (number)  Full-time equivalent  Headcount 
			 England  1.8 348 18,854 24,844 
			   
			 Surrey and Sussex SHA area total Q19 1.4 12 797 1,076 
			 Ashford and St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Trust RTK 0.0 0 77 106 
			 Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust RXH 0.0 0 154 203 
			 East Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust RXC 0.0 0 143 179 
			 Frimley Park Hospital NHS Trust RDU 1.5 2 106 141 
			 Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust RPC 0.0 0 1 1 
			 Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Trust RA2 11.3 10 79 141 
			 Royal West Sussex NHS Trust RPR 0.0 0 66 77 
			 Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust RTP 0.0 0 102 128 
			 Worthing and Southlands Hospitals NHS Trust RPL 0.0 0 70 100 
			  Notes: Three month vacancy:1. Three month vacancy information is as at 31 March 2005.2. Three month vacancies are vacancies which trusts are actively trying to fill, which had lasted for three months or more (whole-time equivalents).3. Three month vacancy rates are three month vacancies expressed as a percentage of three month vacancies plus staff in post.4. Three month vacancy rates are calculated using staff in post from the non-medical work force census September 2004.5. Percentages are rounded to one decimal place. Staff in post:Staff in post data are from the non-medical work force census September 2004.

MMR Vaccination

Ashok Kumar: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the percentage uptake of the MMR vaccination was in  (a) the North East,  (b) the Tees Valley and  (c) Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constituency in each year since 1997.

Rosie Winterton: Immunisation data by primary care trust, strategic health authority and nationally are published annually in the statistical bulletin, 'NHS Immunisation Statistics, England', which is available on the Department's website at: www.dh.gov.uk/PublicationsAndStatistics/Statistics/StatisticalWorkAreas/fs/en Data is not available by local authority or by electoral ward.

NHS Finance

Andrew Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the expenditure of strategic health authorities (SHA) in the last year for which figures are available was, broken down by major cost area  (a) in total and  (b) for each SHA.

Andy Burnham: Strategic health authority (SHA) expenditure for 2004-05, the latest year available, is shown in the table. The majority of expenditure by SHAs relates to training and education and there will be variation in expenditure because SHAs fund training on behalf of other health bodies.
	
		
			  £000 
			  SHA name  Salaries and wages  Training( 1)  Other expenditure  Total expenditure 
			 Avon, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire 8,148 133,632 4,657 146,437 
			 Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire 5,484 67,205 2,867 75,556 
			 Birmingham and The Black Country 16,941 240,451 5,055 262,447 
			 Cheshire and Merseyside 7,077 170,540 5,464 183,081 
			 County Durham and Tees Valley 3,505 120,696 1,861 126,062 
			 Cumbria and Lancashire 5,991 87,714 5,883 99,588 
			 Dorset and Somerset 4,028 45,030 2,396 51,454 
			 Essex 6,757 68,981 4,059 79,797 
			 Greater Manchester 14,088 237,034 6,886 258,008 
			 Hampshire and Isle of Wight 10,902 123,955 4,064 138,921 
			 Kent and Medway 6,128 125,634 6,346 138,108 
			 Leics, Northants and Rutland 5,139 114,769 1,710 121,618 
			 Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire 7,387 201,632 1,022 210,041 
			 North and East Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire 4,365 75,099 2,862 82,326 
			 North Central London 7,735 195,850 3,798 207,383 
			 North East London 8,588 226,312 5,673 240,573 
			 North West London 7,623 189,951 4,059 201,633 
			 Northumberland, Tyne and Wear 5,828 75,330 10,580 91,738 
			 Shropshire and Staffordshire 5,631 59,970 1,392 66,993 
			 South East London 7,900 193,127 4,667 205,694 
			 South West London 7,159 113,559 4,019 124,737 
			 South West Peninsula 6,000 85,378 21,124 112,502 
			 South Yorkshire 26,080 164,837 25,572 216,489 
			 Surrey and Sussex 7,655 114,748 17,056 139,459 
			 Thames Valley 9,215 115,611 7,620 132,446 
			 Trent 4,458 160,148 2,622 167,228 
			 West Midlands South 6,818 61,502 6,948 75,268 
			 West Yorkshire 7,141 197,497 (652) 203,986 
			  
			 England totals 223,771 3,766,192 169,610 4,159,573 
			 (1 )Work force development confederations Source: Audited summarisation forms of the strategic health authorities 2004-05

NHS Finance

John Hemming: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what formula her Department uses to determine the payment made to each primary care trust under payment by results.

Andy Burnham: Revenue allocations are made to primary care trusts (PCTs) on the basis of the relative needs of their populations. A weighted capitation formula, calculates target shares of available resources for each PCT based on the age distribution, additional need and unavoidable geographical variations in the cost of providing services. The 2006-07 allocations have been adjusted to reflect non-recurrently the transitional arrangements for PCTs to support the implementation of payment by results.

NHS Hospital Trusts

John Hemming: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the Answer of 19 April 2006,  Official Report, column 743W, on NHS Hospital Trusts, if she will set out the figures for fixed costs identifying those that arise in relation to private finance initiative projects.

Andy Burnham: I refer the hon. Member to the reply given on 12 July 2005,  Official Report, columns 988-89W. The table which has been placed in the Library gives the annual payments by each trust to it's private sector partner on private finance initiative schemes which have reached financial close. This table has now been updated to reflect the Barts and London Hospital and the Hull and East Yorkshire private finance initiative schemes reaching financial close since then.

Paediatric Specialists

Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many paediatric specialists are employed in each strategic health authority area.

Rosie Winterton: The following table shows the paediatric specialists working in the national health service in each current strategic health authority (SHA) area.
	
		
			  Hospital, Public Health Medicine and Community Health Services: Medical staff within the paediatric group  of specialties by SHA—England at 30 September 2005 
			All staff  Of which: Consultant 
			 Of which:   Of which: 
			Paediatric group of specialties  Paediatrics  Paediatric cardiology  Paediatric group of specialties  Paediatrics  Paediatric cardiology 
			  England  6,770 6,680 90 2,033 1,985 48 
			 Avon, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire Q20 275 269 6 92 87 5 
			 Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Q02 160 160 (1)— 48 48 (1)— 
			 Birmingham and The Black Country Q27 253 247 6 77 71 6 
			 Cheshire and Merseyside Q15 333 326 7 83 79 4 
			 County Durham and Tees Valley Q10 142 142 (1)— 54 54 (1)— 
			 Cumbria and Lancashire Q13 190 190 (1)— 46 46 (1)— 
			 Dorset and Somerset Q22 102 102 (1)— 24 24 (1)— 
			 Essex Q03 140 140 (1)— 40 40 (1)— 
			 Greater Manchester Q14 411 410 1 121 121 (1)— 
			 Hampshire and Isle of Wight Q17 209 198 11 74 74 (1)— 
			 Kent and Medway Q18 205 205 (1)— 52 52 (1)— 
			 Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland Q25 216 213 3 59 56 3 
			 Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire Q01 267 267 (1)— 94 94 (1)— 
			 North and East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire Q11 160 160 (1)— 44 44 (1)— 
			 North Central London Q05 319 314 5 113 108 5 
			 North East London Q06 286 286 (1)— 71 71 (1)— 
			 North West London Q04 436 420 16 131 126 5 
			 Northumberland, Tyne and Wear Q09 220 207 13 77 72 5 
			 Shropshire and Staffordshire Q26 169 169 (1)— 51 51 (1)— 
			 South East London Q07 396 389 7 130 124 6 
			 South West London Q08 227 227 (1)— 65 65 (1)— 
			 South West Peninsula Q21 152 152 (1)— 44 44 (1)— 
			 South Yorkshire Q23 184 184 (1)— 56 56 (1)— 
			 Surrey and Sussex Q19 269 269 (1)— 72 72 (1)— 
			 Thames Valley Q16 264 260 4 76 72 4 
			 Trent Q24 288 288 (1)— 82 82 (1)— 
			 West Midlands South Q28 156 156 (1)— 48 48 (1)— 
			 West Yorkshire Q12 341 330 11 109 104 5 
			 (1) Denotes zero. Source:The information Centre for health and social care medical and dental workforce census

Physiotherapy

Kerry McCarthy: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many physiotherapists were employed within the Avon, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire Strategic Health Authority area in the last year for which figures are available; and how many physiotherapy training places were available in that year.

Caroline Flint: Information on number of physiotherapists employed within Avon, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire Strategic Health Authority (SHA) area is shown in the table. 2,391 national health service physiotherapy training places were commissioned in 2004-05.
	
		
			  NHS hospital and community health services: Qualified physiotherapy staff in the Avon, Gloucestershire  and Wiltshire SHA area by organisation as  at 30 September 2005 
			   Headcount 
			 Avon, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire SHA total 1,076 
			 Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust 31 
			 Bath and North East Somerset PCT 40 
			 Bristol North PCT 8 
			 Bristol South and West PCT 27 
			 Cotswold and Vale PCT 77 
			 Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 169 
			 Gloucestershire Partnership NHS Trust 25 
			 Kennet and North Wiltshire PCT 72 
			 North Bristol NHS Trust 140 
			 North Somerset PCT 11 
			 Royal National Hospital For Rheumatic Diseases NHS Foundation Trust 25 
			 Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Trust 53 
			 Salisbury Health Care NHS Trust 34 
			 South Gloucestershire PCT 36 
			 South Wiltshire PCT 30 
			 Swindon and Marlborough NHS Trust 5 
			 Swindon PCT 89 
			 United Bristol Healthcare NHS Trust 122 
			 West Gloucestershire PCT 2 
			 West Wiltshire PCT 48 
			 Weston Area Health NHS Trust 32 
			  Source:The Information Centre for health and social care, non-medical workforce census

Primary Care Trusts

Mark Harper: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what powers primary care trusts have to direct the commissioning choices of general practitioners under practice-based commissioning.

Caroline Flint: Practice based commissioning gives additional freedoms to general practitioner practices to commission innovative services.
	Under practice-based commissioning, primary care trusts (PCTs) remain accountable for all funds allocated to them. Therefore, PCTs retain the power to ensure that all services commissioned meet all relevant quality standards and accreditation, as well as national and local priorities.

Referral Management Schemes

Andrew Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health 
	(1)  how many primary care trusts operate referral management schemes; what representations she has received from  (a) hon. Members,  (b) NHS organisations and  (c) other interested parties on the operation of such schemes; what the content of these representations was; and when they were received;
	(2)  pursuant to the oral answer of 7 March 2006,  Official Report, column 71, on Clinical Advisory Liaison Services, to the hon. Member for Banbury (Tony Baldry), if she will place in the Library a copy of the letter sent by her Department's Director of Access to primary care trust chief executives in July 2005.

Andy Burnham: A copy of the letter has been placed in the Library. It is also available on the Department's website at:
	www.dh.gov.uk/PublicationsAndStatistics/Bulletins/ChiefExecutiveBulletin/BulletinCE/fs/en?CONTENT_ID=4115298&chk=9VoVmr
	Information on the number of primary care trusts operating referral management schemes is not collected centrally.
	Conducting a comprehensive trawl for all representations received by the Department for references to referral management schemes would incur disproportionate cost. However, a brief search has identified representations from:
	
		
			  Type of representation?parliamentary questions 
			  (a) hon. Members 
			  From  Date received  Content of representation 
			 Tony Baldry MP 7 March 2006 The advice given primary care trusts about the use of clinical advisory liaison services Use of Referral 
			 John Penrose MP 13 and 15 March 2006 Management Centres in North Somerset 
			 Andrew Lansley MP 22 March 2006 Clinical advisory liaison services 
			 Steve Webb MP 3 May 2006 How many primary care trusts are operating general practitioner referral centres

Sandwell and West Birmingham Acute Trust

Khalid Mahmood: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the salary costs of the chief executive of Sandwell and West Birmingham Acute Trust have been in each year since 2001.

Rosie Winterton: The information requested is shown in the table.
	
		
			  Annual salary of chief executive of Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust 
			   Salary band 
			 2005-06 £135,000-£140,000 
			 2004-05 £130,000-£135,000 
			 2003-04 £125,000-£130,000 
			 2002-03 £100,000-£105,000 
			  Note:Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust was created in 2002-03. 
		
	
	The figures show the full annual salary. In 2002-03, the chief executive was paid a lower salary since he was carrying out some work for the West Midlands regional health authority. The chief executive was appointed in July 2002, and was accordingly paid a proportion of the salary shown in 2002-03.

TB

Andrew Murrison: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment she has made of the incidence of tuberculosis in the United Kingdom in each year since 1997; and if she will make a statement.

Caroline Flint: Tuberculosis (TB) rates per 100,000 population for England, Wales and Northern Ireland from 1999-2004 are shown in the table.
	
		
			   TB cases 
			 1999 10.8 
			 2000 11.8 
			 2001 12.4 
			 2002 12.7 
			 2003 12.5 
			 2004 13.1 
			  Notes:1. The Scottish Executive's system for enhanced tuberculosis surveillance differs in some respects and is not entirely comparable with England, Wales and Northern Ireland data.2. HPA ETS data is only available from 1999 onwards. Sources:Health Protection Agency (HPA) enhanced tuberculosis surveillance (ETS) scheme. Office for National Statistics mid-year population estimates. Data as at 10 May 2005 
		
	
	The Department is working with key partners and stakeholders to deliver the objectives of the chief medical officer's action plan for stopping tuberculosis in England (October 2004).
	The plan includes a commitment to have a high quality surveillance system which aims to provide the information required at local, national and international levels to prevent and control TB. Following consultation with various stakeholders, the HPA intends to create a new web-based system for TB surveillance within the next financial year. The new surveillance system will enable the provision of information on TB cases at local, regional and national level that is timely, relevant, complete and accurate. It will facilitate monitoring of disease trends and treatment outcomes and will help with commissioning services for TB.

Type 2 Diabetes

Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many children have been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in each of the last 10 years.

Ivan Lewis: The data requested is not held centrally. However, data on the number of type 2 diabetes-related hospital treatment for children under the age of 18 is shown in the table.
	
		
			  All diagnoses count of finished consultant episodes (FCE) for selected diagnoses national health service hospitals England, 1995-96 to 2004-05 
			   Count of FCEs 
			 1995-96 206 
			 1996-97 226 
			 1997-98 223 
			 1998-99 216 
			 1999-2000 242 
			 2000-01 248 
			 2001-02 296 
			 2002-03 350 
			 2003-04 459 
			 2004-05 447 
			  Notes: Finished Consultant Episode (FCE)An FCE is defined as a period of admitted patient care under one consultant within one health care provider. Please note that the figures do not represent the number of patients, as a person may have more than one episode of care within the year. Diagnosis (Primary Diagnosis)The primary diagnosis is the first of up to 14 (seven prior to 2002-03) diagnosis fields in the Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) data set and provides the main reason why the patient was in hospital. Secondary DiagnosesAs well as the primary diagnosis, there are up to 13 (six prior to 2002-03) secondary diagnosis fields in Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) that show other diagnoses relevant to the episode of care. Definition of Selected Diagnoses (ICD-10 Codes)Type 2 diabetes defined as:E11 (non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus) or O241 (pre-existing diabetes mellitus, non-insulin-dependent) recorded in primary diagnosis or in any of the secondary diagnoses fields. Ungrossed DataFigures have not been adjusted for shortfalls in data (i.e. the data are ungrossed). Source:Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), Health and Social Care Information Centre.

Waiting Lists/Times

Peter Bone: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people were waiting for more than six months for an NHS inpatient operation at the end of each month from November 2005 to April 2006, broken down by hospital trust.

Andy Burnham: holding answer 15 May 2006
	The information requested, apart from the data for April 2006, which is not yet available has been placed in the Library.
	Figures at provider level include patients resident in Wales waiting for treatment in England, where local health groups have instructed the hospital to apply Welsh waiting time standards. The numbers of patients resident in Wales are not separately identifiable from the provider level data. Consequently, the provider level figures sum to a higher total than the primary care trust/strategic health authority level figures, which do not include patients resident in Wales.
	Any breaches of the waiting time standards are unacceptable and the Department will continue to work closely to support the small number of national health service organisations where patients are waiting over six months.

Walk-in Health Care

John Pugh: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many  (a) minor injuries departments,  (b) accident and emergency departments and  (c) walk-in centres were operational in England in each of the last five years.

Rosie Winterton: National health service trusts self-report the number of accident and emergency (A&E) departments that they provide against definitions that the Department has set for each type of A&E. Separate information is also collected specifically on the number of walk-in centres in England. The information available is shown in the table.
	
		
			   Number of type one (major) A&E departments  Number of type three A&E departments (minor injury and illness services including minor injury units)  Number of walk-in centres 
			 2001-02 196 149 42 
			 2002-03 209 214 42 
			 2003-04 208 225 44 
			 2004-05 207 238 64 
			 2005-06 204 252 69 
			  Notes:(1) QMAE data used for type one and type three A&E departments for years 2002-03 to 2005-06.  2. KH03 data used for type one and type three A&E departments for year 2001-02.  3. Walk-in centre figures were not collected in QMAE prior to 2003-04, therefore figures from the walk-in centre monthly service report have been used for 2001-02 and 2002-03.  4. As at end March of relevant year except 2005-06 where position is at end December.